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Home  Elvis News Community News How Elvis left Graceland
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It has been reported that the Graceland mansion character is to remain despite a massive overhaul to the Graceland complex in Memphis.
There is no specific timetable according to Kevin Kern, a spokesman for EPE Inc. In particular, plans to tear down the 128-room Heartbreak Hotel and replace it with an entertainment complex, two 400-room hotels and restaurants, is still on the drawing board, said Kern. But now Kern hasn't done his homework because he stated, "But don't expect the shag carpeting in the Graceland mansion's Jungle Room to be taken up and replaced with hardwood floors. Elvis Presley Graceland is a national landmark. You don't make changes like that. You don't change a national landmark,'' said Kern. "There's always the process of maintaining a place, but that doesn't mean you have to make changes. You clean it up. You trim the trees and change out plants, but you don't change the house. Graceland mansion will always be like it was."
Who is he kidding or didn't he know Priscilla tore up the carpet, torn down the curtains, removed the furniture when she took over Graceland and changed history? It seems she did not like the way Elvis left Graceland when he died and millions of people have never had the chance to appreciate Graceland as Elvis left it. Perhaps Sillerman can now change the house back to the way it was when Elvis died, as featured in the photographs above. The rooms inside Graceland were in a bright red, carpet, drapes, furniture and apparently it was the style Linda Thompson persuaded Elvis to chose.
By all accounts Priscilla didn't like Linda, because she was close to Lisa, so as soon as she got the chance Cilla put her mark on Graceland and destroyed history, by changing the interior decor of Graceland. It is amazing to learn that after all these years Linda and Sam Thompson are finally guests of Graceland for Elvis Week 2006, especially since EPE did to their parents when they sued them to take back the house Elvis gave to them.
Sonny West - Elvis' bodyguard and Memphis Mafia member signed a publishing deal with Random House for his upcoming book, "Elvis: Still Taking Care of Business" due August 2007
ELVIS refused to play his own music at home, according to a book: Me And A Guy Named Elvis by Jerry Schilling. Once Elvis yelled: "Who put that c**p on?" when a partygoer at Graceland put All Shook Up on the record player, recalls Schilling. "Elvis was proud of his work but it was just that - his work. "He lived with his music outside the house - he didn't need to hear it while relaxing."
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