According to Mark Crispin Miller, Graceland became for Presley " the home of the organization that was himself, was tended by a large vague clan of Presleys and deputy Presleys, each squandering the vast gratuities which Elvis used to keep his whole world smiling.

According to Elaine Dundy, Presley sang " Love Me Tender " " straight, subdued and tender ... — a very different Elvis from the one on The Steve Allen Show three months before ".

According to Marcus, " For the first of his two appearances that night, as a performer Elvis had come on dressed in grandma's nightgown and nightcap.

According to Sullivan's co-producer Marlo Lewis, the rumor had it that " Elvis has been hanging a small soft-drink bottle from his groin underneath his pants, and when he wiggles his leg it looks as though his pecker reaches down to his knee!

" ( According to historian Tim Parrish, Presley's manager, Colonel Parker, " had threatened to remove Elvis from the show if Sullivan did not apologize for telling the press that Elvis's ' gyrations ' were immoral.

According to Elvis Costello, who also performed at the Masters Tribute Concert, described Burke's performance as " flawless ": " Aretha was really wailing and Solomon had tears rolling down his cheeks, declaiming, " Bring the boys home " like a preacher, reworking the song as a plea for sanity during the never-ending war.

According to a note added by Deborah Wray on his Rockabilly Hall of Fame page, Link Wray had married four times and was survived by nine children: Fred Lincoln Wray III, Link Elvis Wray, Shayne Wray, Elizabeth ( Beth ) Wray Webb, Mona Kay Wray Tidwell, Belinda Wray Muth, Rhonda Wray Sayen, and Charlotte Wray Glass.

According to Weingarten, the WWN later reported that claims of Elvis ' death had been a hoax.

According to Henry Geldzahler, “ collages ‘ Elvis Presley No. 1 ’ and ‘ James Dean ’ stand as the Plymouth Rock of the Pop movement .”.

According to a popular joke, Elvis himself entered an Elvis look-alike contest at a local restaurant shortly before his death, and came in third place.

According to social historian Eric Lott, " the widespread embarrassment and innuendo surrounding Elvis impersonation points more directly to the homoerotic implications built into such acts.

According to Gael Sweeney, Elvis impersonation offers a spectacle of the grotesque, the display of the fetishized Elvis body by impersonators who use a combination of Christian and New Age imagery and language to describe their devotion to The King.

" According to Marjorie Garber's academic study, Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety ( 1992 ), Elvis impersonation is so insistently connected with femininity that it is " almost as if the word ' impersonator ', in contemporary popular culture, can be modified either by ' female ' or by ' Elvis.

" According to Eric Braun, " Elvis was attracted by Adams ' outgoing personality and the young actors caused quite a stir, cruising round Los Angeles with Natalie Wood, Russ Tamblyn and others on their Hondas .".

" According to the founder of the Museum of Broadcast Communications, Bruce DuMont, " She was to Paul Harvey what Colonel Parker was to Elvis Presley.

According to Moore, Elvis agreed to take 50 percent, with Moore and Black splitting the other 50 percent.

According to her account, Elvis told her that they had to wait until they were married before having intercourse.

According to Josh Homme, the song was inspired by the " sort of sexual twist " of Doc Pomus's song of the same name, which is probably best known as recorded by Elvis Presley: " I like the amalgam of imagery that it puts forward, that throwing a little pebble at the girl's windows late at night, you know, trying to creep in the back door, you know.

According to Patrick Humphries, they " acted as Elvis ' bodyguards, babysitters, drug procurers, girl-getters, mates and car buyers.

Those guys were always around ..." According to the singer's cousin Billy Smith, Elvis got into bed with Smith and his wife Jo " many times at Graceland when we would spend the night there in Lisa's room, or on tour in the hotel, and at the trailer on the property at Graceland.

* According to Rolling Stone, October 21, 1981, Elvis " is a poignant book, the result of Goldman's winning the trust and confidence of hundreds of sources, including many of Elvis ' closest friends.

According to David Piper's The Illustrated History of Art, his later pictures were called " fantastic puzzles.

According to An Illustrated History of Yadkin County 1950-1980, by William E. Rutledge Jr. it was first known as Martinsborough and incorporated in 1811.

According to a 1997 Sports Illustrated article, the agents, John Lounsbury and Wesley Spears of Connecticut, had hoped that Camby would hire them to represent him when he became a professional.

According to a 1930 article in the Illustrated Leicester Chronicle, he began to develop swellings on his lips at the age of 21 months, followed by a bony lump on his forehead and a loosening and roughening of the skin.

According to Sports Illustrated, he was convicted of cocaine possession ( three ounces ) in 1988 and sentenced to 10 years at Northern State Prison in Newark.

According to a writer for Sports Illustrated, the governor of Illinois called Ali " disgusting " and the governor of Maine said that Ali " should be held in utter contempt by every patriotic American.

According to Riders coach Jim Gilstrap in a June 1995 Sports Illustrated article, " the league didn't know he was dead until we told them, and we didn't know until we couldn't find him.

According to Jigsaw Puzzles: An Illustrated History and Price Guide, by Anne D. Williams, Parker Bros. closed the Pastime line in the 1950's and their die-cut puzzles were phased out in the late 1970's.

According to Sports Illustrated, the 2007 salary for Sugar Bowl CEO Paul Hoolahan was $ 607, 500.

According to Sports Illustrated, although the bowl generated $ 12. 3 million in profit in 2007, only $ 5. 9 million of that was paid out to the participating schools.

According to Sports Illustrated, the executive director of the bowl, Gary Cavalli, was paid a $ 377, 475 salary in 2009.

According to The Illustrated Encyclopedia of North American Reptiles and Amphibians, Mudkip and its evolutions are based on salamanders.

According to Cook's Illustrated magazine, tomatoes packed in juice as opposed to puree tend to win taste tests, being perceived as fresher tasting.

According to the Illustrated London News “ Everywhere white and gold meets the eye, and about 200, 000 gas jets add to the glittering effect of the auditorium … such a blaze of light and splendour has scarcely ever witnessed, even in dreams .” ( Penzel 69 )

According to Sports Illustrated and other sports news agencies, at the time the 1999 draft was considered one of the deepest in talent in years, headed by Patrik Stefan and the Sedin twins.

According to Sports Illustrated, Longoria has been dating New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez since early 2012.

According to Dublin Zoo: An Illustrated History by Catherine De Courcy it was one of many lions filmed by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1928 to be used as their mascot Leo.

According to an article by Sports Illustrated columnist and Colorado resident Rick Reilly, when Elway started the drive, Broncos offensive guard Keith Bishop said of the Browns, " We got ' em right where we want ' em!

" According to a writer for Sports Illustrated, the governor of Illinois called Ali " disgusting " and the governor of Maine said that Ali " should be held in utter contempt by every patriotic American.

According to Sports Illustrated, New York District Attorney Frank Hogan reported that underlying the scandal " was the blatant commercialism which had permeated college basketball.

According to Sports Illustrated, when his other competitor for the franchise, Max Kase, a New York newsman, was making his pitch to the other league representatives, Irish would interject from time to time, " Three and a half million.

According to the Inside Baseball portion of the April 27, 1987 Sports Illustrated, Boyd listed Haiti in the ' 87 Red Sox yearbook as his favorite vacation destination.

According to an article in Sports Illustrated on 3 May 2010, Thomas was notable as the world's only then-current professional male athlete in a team sport who was openly gay, although cricketer Steven Davies, volleyball player Michael Dos Santos and footballers Anton Hysén and David Testo have since come out.

According to a writer for Sports Illustrated, the governor of Illinois called Ali " disgusting " and the governor of Maine said that Ali " should be held in utter contempt by every patriotic American.

According to a contemporary Sports Illustrated article, “ Not in years has an American fledgling combined so much box-office appeal with so much pure ability – or crashed the tight little world of big-time tennis with so much confidence.