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397 “He had a blond wig on”: Gail Ganley Steele, in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
397 “I couldn’t stand it anymore”: Gail Ganley Steele quoting Elvis Presley in Brown, Peter Harry, and Broeske, Pat H, Down at the End of Lonely Street: The Life and Death of Elvis Presley.
397 “careful with his hands”: Gail Ganley Steele, quoting Brown, Peter Harry, and Broeske, Pat H, Down at the End of Lonely Street: The Life and Death of Elvis Presley.
397 “Elvis made me feel like I was a queen”: Gail Ganley Steele, in the documentary The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.
398 “I had to ask Elvis”: Ibid.
398 “Of all aspects of male sexuality”: e-mail, Peter O. Whitmer to author, 2009.
399 “I was styling Johnny Rivers’s hair”: Larry Geller to author, 1998. All Larry Geller quotes come from the author’s extensive interviews and e-mails with Mr. Geller, 1998 to 2002, and 2009.
401 “Elvis’s infatuation”: Marty Lacker to author, 1994.
401 “I’ll give you”: Lamar Fike to author, 1994.
401 “She sat in one of those director’s chairs”: Chris Noel to author, 2009. All Chris Noel quotes come from this interview.
402 “He’d say the P in the song”: “Interview with Charlie Hodge,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, April 9, 2005.
402 “We never had any kind of romantic association”: Mary Ann Mobley to author, 2007. All Mary Ann Mobley quotes come from this interview. Portions of the Mary Ann Mobley material previously appeared in Ladies’ Home Journal, August 2007.
403 “Elvis was very much into all this unknown stuff”: Joe Esposito to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
403 “You missed your calling, Larry”: Larry Geller quoting Colonel Tom Parker to author, 1998.
403 “messing up Elvis’s head with all that nonsense”: Anonymous source to author, 2009.
404 “There was something wrong with the lights”: Francine York to Andrew Hearn, Essential Elvis magazine, no. 10, 2000.
404 “The woman spun around”: Schilling, Jerry, with Crisafulli, Chuck, Me and a Guy Named Elvis: My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley.
405 “I can never forget the longing”: Elvis Presley to James Kingsley, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, March, 1965.
405 “The money is so big”: Anonymous source, quoted in the Saturday Evening Post, September 11, 1965.
406 “Elvis could have demanded changes”: Joan Blackman, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 58.
406 “sooner or later”: Colonel Tom Parker, quoted in the Saturday Evening Post, September 11, 1965.
406 “He was so strong”: Jo Smith to author, 1993. All Jo Smith quotes come from this interview. Portions of the Jo Smith material previously appeared in Ladies’ Home Journal, August 2007.
406 “We’d be sitting around the house”: Rex Mansfield, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 65.
409 “a fifty-fifth cousin to P. T. Barnum”: Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst, Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
409 “When he was doing”: Patti Parry to author, 2009.
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411 “I am a child-woman”: Priscilla Presley, in “Viva, Priscilla!” by Kevin Sessums, Vanity Fair, July 1991.
411 “Priscilla has a remarkable interior gyroscope”: Jack Soden, Elvis Presley Enterprises, in “Viva, Priscilla!” by Kevin Sessums, Vanity Fair, July 1991.
412 “It became like the First and Second Family”: Lamar Fike to author, 1994.
412 “and then after they took them”: Billy Smith to author, 1993.
412 “He was going to play around”: Lamar Fike to author, 1994.
412 “We had to haul”: Marty Lacker to author, 1993.
413 “he didn’t try to date her”: Lamar Fike to author, 1994.
413 “never really taxed”: Sue Ane Langdon, quoted in “Everyone Enjoyed Working with Elvis,” by Trevor Cajiao, Elvis: The Man and His Music, issue 66, 2004.
414 “a very detrimental effect”: Letter, Hal Wallis to Colonel Tom Parker, Hal Wallis Collection, Margaret Herrick Library, the Academy of Motion Pictures.
414 “That goddamn old fucking bitch!”: Marty Lacker quoting Elvis Presley to author, 1994.
415 “a show business phenomenon”: Marianna Hill,