what were you doing when you heard Elvis was dead ?

lying on the sofa.

I was at the Derbyshire Miners' Holiday Camp in Skeggy, probably getting sunburnt.

Mentioned you on another thread today, Dave!

At my Aunt's house in Blackheath, I went out to walk her dog and when I got back Mum and Aunty were crying

Lying on the sofa but not the same one as Brassneck I'd like to stress.

I was on a family holiday at The Pines hotel in Swanage.  I remember this young girl in the lounge crying that Elvis had died.  I found it really odd that she was crying, which is why I remember it, as I hadn't a clue who he was.

I still do find it odd tbh.

Can't remember where I was but I recall being all shook up.

Down the chip shop

I was on holiday, down my mates caravan in Kent.

I was also on holiday when Marilyn Monroe died, with my parents in Dorset.

I was on the toilet eating a deep fried burger.Put me right off.

crystal

crystalhunt • October 16, 2014 8:43 PM BST
Can't remember where I was but I recall being all shook up.   Don't be cruel!

Ah well a bless my soul

I'm treating some of these replies with a Suspicious Mind.

Was in the chapel,made me quite tearful.

hector beat me to it

I was in Ireland when Shergar was abducted

I was in Tenerife when Maxwell's body was bobbing up and down in the ocean

... but I've Never Been to Spain as there's Too Much Monkey Business.

Was 9 years old. On holiday in Llandudddddno. Sat at the breakfast table and saw the newspaper headline. Blurted out: "Elvis is dead!" and got a clip round the lughole from my ma.

something similar happened to me in Wales a few years back when sitting in the local rugby club with an Elvis impersonator.

I was eating dessert in a restaurant with a mate and his family. His mother cried in the gateau.

ha ha ha

it was the summer holidays and I was staying at my friend from boarding school's house in cheltenham

i was crying in the chapel

oh ffs

Shame you didnt look way down the thread Fishy.

takuffs

Gateau the winner

RoyClaytonsTash    16 Oct 14 22:43 
Shame you didnt look way down the thread Fishy.

Down?

That's what you get for having new posts at the top.

Normal people read down a page, not up.

I was in bed with a chick. Put a real damper on the evening.

Nestling in my mothers womb, was born a month after. She passed now god bless her

Mikael D'Haguenet, We used to go to the Derbyshire miners camp most years early to mid 80's, is it even still running ? Happy days.

Jailhouse wok.

Listening to the radio when John Peel announced it. Probably the John Peel show on Radio One, come to think of it.

Still vivid in my mind.
I was on the slip road joining the A1 at Ferrybridge.

They Don't write em like this anymore

"Jailhouse Rock"

The warden threw a party in the county jail.
The prison band was there and they began to wail.
The band was jumpin' and the joint began to swing.
You should've heard those knocked out jailbirds sing.
Let's rock, everybody, let's rock.
Everybody in the whole cell block
was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock.

Spider Murphy played the tenor saxophone,
Little Joe was blowin' on the slide trombone.
The drummer boy from Illinois went crash, boom, bang,
the whole rhythm section was the Purple Gang.
Let's rock, everybody, let's rock.
Everybody in the whole cell block
was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock.

Number forty-seven said to number three:
"You're the cutest jailbird I ever did see.
I sure would be delighted with your company,
come on and do the Jailhouse Rock with me."
Let's rock, everybody, let's rock.
Everybody in the whole cell block
was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock.

The sad sack was a sittin' on a block of stone
way over in the corner weepin' all alone.
The warden said, "Hey, buddy, don't you be no square.
If you can't find a partner use a wooden chair."
Let's rock, everybody, let's rock.
Everybody in the whole cell block
was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock.

Shifty Henry said to Bugs, "For Heaven's sake,
no one's lookin', now's our chance to make a break."
Bugsy turned to Shifty and he said, "Nix nix,
I wanna stick around a while and get my kicks."
Let's rock, everybody, let's rock.
Everybody in the whole cell block
was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock.


You feel like dancing just reading the words number47 said to number3

reading this thread makes me want to start another 0ne......... the most overated singer of all time........elvis would win hands down

blackestnight     17 Oct 14 01:19 

Mikael D'Haguenet, We used to go to the Derbyshire miners camp most years early to mid 80's, is it even still running ? Happy days.

It's now a plain old caravan site, mate. The amusement arcade across the road is barely functioning either but  it's not all bad news as the Linga Longa chippy is still alive and well!

From memory I had been out for the evening & my dad told me as I walked into the living room, uncanny thing is the Living room is totally unchanged from around 1974 &  often remember my dad telling me whenever Elvis's name springs up.

reading this thread makes me want to start another 0ne......... the most overated singer of all time........elvis would win hands down

Please do, it will keep the loonies, the tone deff and the losers off this one. TIA.

heard once on radio elvis manager didn't want him to sing on stage with tom jones as tom jones would sing him off it

heard once on radio elvis manager didn't want him to sing on stage with tom jones as tom jones would sing him off it

Possibly, although he did that Christmas duet with Susan Boyle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD1XuOiLCpc

Elvis and Tom Jones
http://photos.elvispresley.com.au/elvis_presley_tom_jones.html

ffs when did this happen ? RIP

on holiday in dunblane scotland

Never knew the King had visited Scotland.

Was up at York Races.....staying in a small hotel..... missed it on the late news the night before..... next morning was having a shave and could hear the radio on in the next room playing all Elvis songs...... didn't know why it was all Elvis but didn't think any more of it ..... went out for early morning paper...... and the big headline on the newspaper stand 'ELVIS PRESLEY DEAD' .......and still got the paper I bought that morning.  Huge Elvis fan.



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The greatest entertainer ever. He was an AMAZING singer, with a god given talent. If you watch any of his concerts while he is singing live, he sounds impeccable.

Sadly towards the end he lost focus and was just so tired of everything, he was too far gone, the drugs made him that way. He didn't know how to stop the drugs. And he didn't want to.  He was just a tormented person who couldn't get his sh1t together.  His drug dependency ruined him in the end.

Masturbating furiously