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Elvis Presley Timeline: 1975

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Here's a handy list of dates and events in Elvis Presley's life during 1975. 

January 1975

• January 8: Distraught over the landmark of his 40th birthday, Elvis spends the day in his bedroom at Graceland without visitors, where he has been since at least Christmas .
• January 10: In an attempt to rouse his dangerously depressed and lethargic client, manager Colonel Tom Parker arranges for a benefit concert to raise funds for the victims' of yesterday's devastating tornado in McComb, MS. The show is to be held on May 5th in nearby Jackson.
• January 20: In the beginning of yet another one of his hobbies, Elvis buys his first jet, a Boeing 707.
• January 29: After girlfriend Linda Thompson wakes up and finds him struggling to catch his breath, Elvis is admitted to Memphis' Baptist Hospital for "a liver problem," which in reality is an attempt by Presley's personal physician "Dr. Nick" to curtail his growing addiction to prescription medication .

February 1975

• February 5: While Elvis is still in the hospital, his father, Vernon, suffers a heart attack and is admitted to the room next to his son's.​
• February 14: Elvis is discharged from the hospital and is sent home, with "Dr. Nick" developing a schedule wherein either he or his nurse bring the singer his prescribed amount of medications to Graceland every day.
• March 13: Elvis begins rehearsals for his next Vegas engagement.
• March 16: Full band rehearsals for the new Vegas gig begin, with the singer once again introducing several bluesier, more contemporary, and relatively risky new numbers, most of which will again never see the light of day in the final set list.
• March 18: The Vegas show has its opening night, with the press remarking on the slight return to form of Elvis both physically and musically.
• March 28: Barbra Streisand attends tonight's Vegas gig and meets Elvis backstage to discuss offering him the lead role in her latest film project: a remake of the classic A Star Is Born . Despite the fact that Streisand's boyfriend, stylist Jon Peters, is slated to produce and direct, the King is said to be ecstatic about the project.
• April 1: Elvis and the band break into a spontaneous water pistol fight during tonight's closing show, with the Colonel, for some reason, appearing on stage dressed as Santa Claus.
• April 14: The Colonel's counteroffer to United Artists' Star Is Born offer, which he insinuates is "a cheap deal," is as follows: one million dollars salary for Elvis (twice what was offered), in addition to fifty percent of the profits (five times what was offered) and soundtrack rights (which were never offered). UA never responds with another offer, but Elvis, as usual, has by this time lost interest in the idea anyway.
• April 17: Elvis buys yet another jet, this time a Convair that had been in service with Delta Airlines. The final cost of this plane was three-quarter of a million dollars, with most of that number coming from extensive renovations: gold bathroom fixtures, a queen-size bed, and a full audio-visual system. This is the famous plane adorned with Elvis' TCB logo.
• April 21: Elvis buys a home near Graceland for girlfriend Linda Thompson.
• April 24: Bassist Jerry Scheff rejoins the touring band after a two-year hiatus and is visibly appalled by the rapid decline in the singer's health and the equally rapid enervation of the live show.
• May 5: The McComb tornado concert nets $100,000 for victims of the storm.
• May 9: Alarmed by his client's exponentially increasing spending, Colonel Parker writes RCA's touring division, cautioning them to keep expenses low on the road.
• May 31: Elvis begins the latest leg of his new tour with a noticeably upbeat show and what the press reports as a slimmer figure.
• June 15: Citing the need for "an extensive eye examination," Elvis is admitted to Mid-South Hospital in Memphis to have plastic surgery done on his eyes in an attempt to remove the first sign of wrinkles appearing around them. Although Dr. Nick and the Colonel strongly advise against the operation, Elvis insists.
• July 8: On-again, off-again girlfriend Sheila Ryan refuses to join Elvis on his latest tour, effectively ending their relationship.
• July 14: An upset Elvis throws his guitar into the crowd, claiming he doesn't need the "damned thing" anymore.
• July 19: During tonight's show, Elvis performs an impromptu version of the emotional standard "You'll Never Walk Alone," alone at the piano.
• July 20: For the third time on this tour, Elvis publicly humiliates backup singer Kathy Westmoreland on stage, claiming she would "take affection from anybody, anyplace, anytime. In fact, she gets it from the whole band." This was apparently Presley's attempt to get back at Westmoreland, who had dated Elvis a few years previously, for declining his offer to get back together and instead date a member of the backing group. On a roll, Elvis continued, saying that he smelled "green peppers and onions" and claiming the Sweet Inspirations, his Black backup singers must have been eating catfish. When the embarrassed singers looked down at the stage to hide their discomfort, Elvis declared, "If you don't look up, I'm going to kick your ass," and "Sorry for any embarrassment I might have caused, but if you can't take it, get off the pot." The singers walked off one by one. The Inspirations would return the next day, following Elvis' heartfelt apology and gifts of an amazing amount of jewelry; Westmoreland would return in another few days.
• July 23: Enraged at Dr. Nick for refusing to allow him more than his prescribed dosage of medications, Elvis launches into a tirade backstage, waving his Beretta around, which accidentally discharges a bullet that ricochets and strikes (but does not puncture) the doctor's chest.
• July 24: On the last night of the tour, a bored and visibly upset Elvis berates the crowd for not showing enough appreciation, then takes audience requests as a way of smoothing things over. Later, Presley gives one of his rings, worth $6,500 , to a female audience member and throws yet another guitar into the crowd.
• July 26:  Elvis purchases yet another plane, this time for the Colonel, who, already aghast at his client's spending, refuses to accept it.
• July 27:  Elvis purchases no less than fourteen Cadillacs, most of which will be given away as gifts, including one to a stranger who merely happened to be pricing cars at the dealership. In the month to come, he will buy yet another Cadillac, a Pontiac Grand Prix, three more jet planes, and a fleet of three-wheeled motorcycles, and will give Dr. Nick $200,000 for a new home.

August 1975

• August 9:  Elvis attends the second home game of the new WFL team the Memphis Southmen (informally known as the Grizzlies), and when Jo Cathy Brownlee (the Grizzlies' press box hostess who Elvis has been seeing behind Linda Thompson's back) refuses to accompany him to Palm Springs, he immediately finds another girl at the stadium and brings her instead.
• August 18:  Elvis opens his new Vegas engagement with another tired and dispirited performance that is not lost on the press.
• August 19:  During tonight's "dinner show," an apparently exhausted Elvis lies down on the stage while singing. It was to become a too-frequent occurrence.
• August 20:  When the Colonel refuses to let the King cancel his last two shows due to "illness," a bored Elvis can be seen repeatedly checking his watch during the gig. The next day he is hospitalized in Memphis for a "fatigue state," ending his latest Vegas engagement prematurely.
• August 30:  The recently disgraced President Nixon calls Elvis to wish him well during his stay.

September 1975

• September 29:  Upon learning of singer Jackie Wilson's stroke, Elvis immediately sends an undisclosed amount to his family to defray hospital expenses.

October 1975

• October 6:  Linda Thompson, aware of Elvis' various infidelities, decides to stay in Los Angeles and pursue her acting career, effectively ending her relationship with Elvis.
• October 14:  Construction begins at Graceland on a racquetball court, following the advice of Dr. Nick that Elvis get some exercise between shows.
• October 21:  The Colonel agrees to fulfill Elvis' recording contract with RCA by finishing an album of half-studio, half-live content for a December release.

November 1975

• November 25:  Elvis puts up Graceland as collateral on a $300,000 loan from the Memphis Bank of Commerce designed to defray his recent wild spending habits and lack of recording sales.

December 1975

• December 2:  Elvis makes up for his canceled Vegas dates with what all agree is a spirited and energetic show.
• December 24:  Presley awakes from a dream in which his friends all leave him after they discover he is bankrupt. So upset is Elvis about this dream, which he sees as a premonition, that he orders the guests, through others at Graceland, to leave immediately.
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• Song played from tape Also sprach Zarathustra ( Richard Strauss  song) ( 2001 Theme ) Play Video
• That's All Right ( Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup  cover) Play Video
• I've Got a Woman ( Ray Charles  cover) Play Video
• Amen Play Video
• Big Boss Man ( Jimmy Reed  cover) Play Video
• Love Me ( Willy and Ruth  cover) Play Video
• If You Love Me (Let Me Know) ( Olivia Newton‐John  cover) Play Video
• All Shook Up Play Video
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• Don't Be Cruel Play Video
• Hound Dog ( Big Mama Thornton  cover) Play Video
• An American Trilogy ( Mickey Newbury  cover) Play Video
• Heartbreak Hotel Play Video
• Jailhouse Rock Play Video
• Something ( The Beatles  cover) Play Video
• Return to Sender Play Video
• Wooden Heart Play Video
• Hawaiian Wedding Song ( Charles E. King  cover) Play Video
• Bridge Over Troubled Water ( Simon & Garfunkel  cover) Play Video
• Polk Salad Annie ( Tony Joe White  cover) Play Video
• Johnny B. Goode ( Chuck Berry  cover) Play Video
• School Day (Ring Ring Goes the Bell) ( Chuck Berry  cover) Play Video
• T-R-O-U-B-L-E Play Video
• Shake a Hand ( Faye Adams  cover) Play Video
• Pieces of My Life ( Charlie Rich  cover) Play Video
• How Great Thou Art ( Stuart K. Hine  cover) Play Video
• Can't Help Falling in Love Play Video
• Closing Vamp Play Video

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• An American Trilogy by Mickey Newbury
• Big Boss Man by Jimmy Reed
• Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel
• Hawaiian Wedding Song by Charles E. King
• Hound Dog by Big Mama Thornton
• How Great Thou Art by Stuart K. Hine
• I've Got a Woman by Ray Charles
• If You Love Me (Let Me Know) by Olivia Newton‐John
• Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry
• Love Me by Willy and Ruth
• Pieces of My Life by Charlie Rich
• Polk Salad Annie by Tony Joe White
• School Day (Ring Ring Goes the Bell) by Chuck Berry
• Shake a Hand by Faye Adams
• Something by The Beatles
• That's All Right by Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup
• All Shook Up
• Don't Be Cruel
• Heartbreak Hotel
• Can't Help Falling in Love
• Closing Vamp
• Wooden Heart
• Return to Sender
• Jailhouse Rock
• (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
• T-R-O-U-B-L-E

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Review - Elvis On Tour '75 - Photos from the heart

Almost everything I know now comes from reading books, listening and watching interviews, movies or fan-footage and last but not least from listening to the great amount of his music. However most of the time you can hear the same people talking about Elvis and their experiences with him for example Joe 'Diamond' Esposito, Larry Geller, Lamar Fike to name a few.

To be truthful I'm getting really tired nowadays from listening to their stories over and over again. Seldom you have the chance to listen to someone who was there and had experienced Elvis as a fan. That's one reason I find the new book Elvis On Tour '75 - Photos from the heart from Sandi H. Pichon refreshing. So let's dig into the book.

Elvis and 1975? What'd you think of Elvis in 1975? The first thing that comes to my mind is the comment 'fat & forty' on the occasion of his 40th birthday. Even knowing the fact that Elvis wasn't a darling of the critics most of the time of his career, it can be said that it was a very malicious comment.

That aside the comment makes clear that Elvis was written off from his critics as a relic of 50s at that time. So why bother to release a book about Elvis on tour in 1975? Because the answer is - simple as it is - it's absolutely worthwhile.

What's this book like? It contains on more than 130 pages, about 400 pictures - almost unpublished - of four concerts from the April - May 1975 tour, exactly from the concert in Jacksonville from April 25th and from the three concerts he gave in Atlanta from April 30th to May 2nd.

All the photos - which were for the biggest part shot by Pichon herself (a fewer are credited to Alverson & Phillips) - are sharp and get delivered in pristine quality. Alone for the quality and the rarity of the photos, the book would have been recommended. But there's much more to it than alone the quality.

Pichon is telling the reader what fans have felt like to have Elvis in town and to know that they would see him live in concert that particular day. Her description about all the things that were thought and done around the concert and especially Elvis creates a new picture for me of Elvis and his devoted fans in 1975.

The excitement of those days is getting lively again! Now you get the feeling that for the fans there was no difference between the Elvis in let's say 1970 in comparison to 1975 - the thrill of going to an Elvis concert hasn't changed a bit since then!

Hopefully you're lucky enough to have an import recording from one of those concerts which get covered in the book, while listening to the music, watching those fantastic photos and browsing through the whole book, because that makes it an even better experience - if that's possible!

The book offer lots and lots of high quality pictures to look at, a remarkable and never before seen layout of an Elvis book and a story told by a fan who was at the concerts and knew Elvis personally.

Fortunately there are at least three import CDs available which offer two out of four concerts or at least parts of them, which are 'A Damn Fine Show' (from April 25th/ soundboard recording released by Vicky), 'Live At The Omni' (from May 2nd/ audience recording released by Wizard Ing. Cop.) and 'We'll Make You Happy' (from April 25th/ soundboard recording released by Savoy).

As an extra plus (to be correct, the book starts with it) you get an oversight of all concert dates of '75 including the Vegas concerts and also the number of attendance and in parts the gross of the concerts.

Coming to an end I'd like to say that I really liked the release Born To Rock which was in my opinion unique in quality, packaging and concept and I recommended it highly.

This time it gets even better. They've made a big step-up in terms of design and layout as the paper-quality stays the same like the paper-quality of the 'Born To Rock' release.

What's so great about the layout is that you'll get the impression of motion by watching the photos, which are presented in different sizes changing from smaller ones to full-page ones, which makes browsing through the book very varying.

Also awesome is the induction of memorabilia stuff, ticket stubs, newspaper reviews - you could go on and on. Therefor Regina Wiegand who's responsible for cover, book design and layout deserves an extra applause. She did a marvelous job, which makes this book my favorite 70s book.

The foreword is written by Sonny West and Elvis tour producer Charles Stone what makes clear that this book is something special as it is written by a fan who was well known and accepted by the so called inner circle from Elvis.

So with this book you'll get a very good impression of Elvis as a performer and entertainer in his latter days and much more you can learn something about the relationship from Elvis with his fans in those days.

It should also be said, that this book is - as usual at Praytome Publishing - a hardcover book in the format they've used for their former book releases Behind The Image Vol.1 & 2 .

(The book Elvis - Behind The Image Vol. 1 is nearly sold out- Don't miss this opportunity to add this fantastic book to your collection!)

Way to go Praytome Publishing! Highly recommended.

Joern Bueter

The book is in stock and can be ordered through the official Australian distributor  Elvis Australia .

View the Making of Elvis On Tour 1975  - see how much trouble 'Praytome Publishing' go to just for a 'Trailer' and you will know how high a quality their books are!

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