Elvis Day By day (Peter Guralnick and Ernst Jorgensen)
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Elvis A Celebration (Mike Evans)
Location:
Pan Pacific Auditorium, Los Angeles, California
Info:
In his first show in his new adoptive hometown, Elvis outrages not only the local and national press but an audience filled with Hollywood celebrities and their children. During the fifty-minute, eighteen-number show he "wiggled, bumped, twisted," and prompted headlines the next day that declared: "Elvis Presley Will Have to Clean Up His Show - Or Go to Jail." The Los Angeles Vice Squad warns Colonel Parker of that same potential consequence, but according to the Colonel, Elvis remains unfazed. "He just said, 'Well, if I don't dance tonight, maybe I don't have to take a shower tonight."
The second night a far less flamboyant performance passes the scrutiny of the police, who film it just to make sure.
