Elvis Presley
On Christmas Eve, Elvis gave Priscilla a ring. It hid a secret she didn’t spot at first
On Christmas Eve 1966, Elvis proposed to Priscilla with a 3.5-carat diamond ring. Its secret: about 20 smaller diamonds that detached, so it could be worn two different ways.
The Colonel asked Elvis to record just one song. At 4 a.m., Elvis told them to throw it out
Are You Lonesome Tonight was the one song Colonel Parker ever asked Elvis to record. Elvis wanted the take thrown out, but the producer kept it and it spent six weeks at number one.
Lisa Marie’s twins just turned 18. Fans say one of them is the image of young Elvis
Elvis's twin granddaughters, Harper and Finley Lockwood, just turned 18. When Priscilla shared a rare photo, fans said one twin looks just like a young Elvis.
Elvis sometimes flew his own jet home. One announcement from the cockpit made the whole cabin gasp
In her memoir, Lisa Marie Presley recalled Elvis flying his own jet home with her in the co-pilot seat, then announcing over the intercom that he was going to land the plane himself.
There’s a story about Elvis and little Lisa Marie at an airport. The real photo is even more tender
A popular story has Elvis dropping to his knees for little Lisa Marie at a 1971 airport. That exact photo can't be found, but the real pictures of father and daughter say even more.
Elvis sent his private jet a thousand miles in the dead of night. The cargo was a sandwich
One night in 1976, Elvis flew his jet nearly a thousand miles to Denver and back. The cargo was the Fool's Gold Loaf: a hollowed loaf stuffed with peanut butter, jelly and bacon.
Elvis bought this jet months before he died. It sat in the desert for 40 years, until someone turned the key
Elvis owned a 1962 JetStar for only months. It sat in the New Mexico desert for about 40 years, until a YouTuber bought it, powered it up and turned it into a drivable RV.
Elvis handed his guitar to a fan in the crowd and said ‘hold on to that.’ He had no idea how right he was
At a 1975 Asheville show, Elvis gave a fan his black Gibson Dove, the guitar from Aloha from Hawaii, telling him to hold onto it. In 2016 it sold for $334,000.
She gave Elvis his first movie kiss. Then she walked away from Hollywood for good
Dolores Hart, 18, gave Elvis his first on-screen kiss in Loving You. A few years later, at the height of her career, she left Hollywood to become a Benedictine nun.
Elvis saw a kid being jumped at a gas station. He stopped the limo and got out
At 1 a.m. in Madison in 1977, Elvis spotted a young attendant being attacked, stopped his limo and broke it up with a karate stance. A marker still stands on the spot.