Lamar fike: I've been thinking about the meditation garden. Have you ever noticed have the graves are laid out? You'd think elvis would be between his mama and daddy. But he's between grandma and his daddy. I figure that's so he can keep an eye on Vernon see what he's up to- and not be distracted. Otherwise, those graves would be spinning like a circle saw. Because while Gladys was alive, they got into it pretty good. You had a wife who dominated the whole thing, a husband who didn't like to work, and an only child who was doted on by his mother. A child who listened to his mother and father argue all their lives. That's what molded elvis into what he was. It was one of the most dysfunctional families I've ever seen.
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Elvis And The Memphis Mafia By Alanna Nash
Non-FictionA monumental oral biography filled with raucous joy, aching loss and terrible poignancy, Elvis and the memphis mafia is the first book to capture the king - the man and the phenomenon- in his full complexity.
