Beale Street was where it all happened – Blues R&B and Rockabilly. It was the Black part of Town. Most of it has been pulled down and redone. It was a very dangerous area with prostitutes, gambling, dancing, gangsters, drugs and lots of knifings and shootings. Life was cheap. But it was the place to hang out where the music was hot, there was wild dancing and plenty of booze.
It’s a bit of a tourist trap now and has been cleaned up. But there is still a lot of loud music and booze and I’m sure you could get yourself shot if you tried.
This is the Elvis I love – the Hillbilly Cat. 
 I don’t go for that later period with the glitzy rhinestone. I think he rapidly became a parody of himself.
I think anybody dressed in rhinestones is going to look ridiculous, but he made some very good good records during `69-72.
There were a smattering of good things all through but I still much prefer the seminal 1956/7 stuff. 69-72 was a bit of a return but not quite Rockabilly.
I quite liked his `68 “Comeback” show, too. Sure, the `69-72 was not `56, but a heck of a step up from the previous nadir of the Hollywood years.
Yes. I think he was trying then. Those Hollywood years sapped his will. But I don’t think he ever recaptured that spontaneity of 56.