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He got calls from Frank Sinatra and President Nixon. He would have me go to the phone and say, is this really President Nixon? Is this really Frank Sinatra? | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
Elvis Presley had a life-long love affair with motor cars. Begining in the '50s with Cadillacs, including the Pink Cadillac that he eventually gave to his mother - probably the most famous car in the world - to a VW and two BMW 507s in Germany. In the '60s there where more Cadillacs and a Rolls Royce. In the '70s, again more Cadillacs, a Mercedes-Benz 600, even a lone Ford T-Bird and no less than five Stutz Blackhawks, among many others. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
Elvis Aron Presley joined the United States Army in Memphis, Tennessee, on March 24, 1958. He spent a few days at the Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, Reception Station before heading to Fort Dix, New Jersey. He officially finished his active duty on March 5, 1960, and his Army Reserve discharge came on March 23, 1964.| www.elvispresley.com.au
Elvis was first exposed to Karate in 1958 after he was drafted into the Army and stationed in Germany. His first instructor was a German shotokan stylist named Juergen Seydel who taught Elvis at his off-base housing in Nauheim until 1958. One nice thing about the military was that you got thirty days of paid vacation (leave) each year. During his vacation in Paris he would take private lessons with Tetsugio Murakami, one of Japan's top shotokan stylists, who would help pioneer shotokan in Eur...| www.elvis.com.au
With the 30th anniversary of Elvis' death Aug. 16, I thought I'd take a little walk down memory lane when I visited the king one night in Las Vegas and taught Priscilla martial arts in Southern California. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
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It's said, as legend has it, that you rescued Elvis from being beaten up at Humes High when a group of boys wanted to cut his hair. What's the real story, and was that what happened? Red West: That is the real story. | Elvis Presley| www.elvis.com.au
American martial arts man Bill 'Superfoot' Wallace who was Elvis Presley's bodyguard and personal trainer from 1974 until his death in 1977 recently talked about his times with the King and gave a rare glimpse of the man behind the legend. 'He was a wonderful person, a nice guy. It was fun working out with him too but you couldn't hit him too hard. You couldn't punch Elvis in the face but it was fun beating up hisMemphis Mafia. He was very good at martial arts, he worked out very hard. I can'...| www.elvis.com.au