Baby, Let's Play House_ Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him - Alanna Nash [399]
543 “If we were at home”: Linda Thompson to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1995.
544 “They shot him”: Jackie Kahane to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.
544 “There were a good five or six times”: Lamar Fike to author, 1995.
544 “the most amazing, kind, sweet Southern gentleman”: Ann Pennington to author, 2009. All Ann Pennington quotes come from this interview unless otherwise noted.
545 “slow and draggy”: “Interview with Anita Wood,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, November 25, 2006.
545 “I felt it was a violation”: Linda Thompson to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1995.
546 “I wondered, ‘What’s this all about?’ ”: Sherry Williams, “Elvis’s Secret Love,” Essential Elvis magazine, no. 33, 2004.
546 “on a mission”: Nanette Kuklish, “I Dated the King,” by Andrew Hearn, Essential Elvis magazine, no. 48, 2006.
546 “Elvis wanted to be happy”: Marty Lacker to author, 1994.
546 “literally twenty-four hours a day”: Linda Thompson to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1995.
546 “She had a peach-colored outfit”: Jo Smith to author, 1993.
547 “We discussed sexual things”: George C. Nichopoulos to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1995.
547 “I had grape juice running down my face”: Sheila Ryan Caan to author, 2009. All Sheila Ryan quotes come from this interview.
552 “I know”: Linda Thompson quoting Elvis Presley to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1995.
553 “posed like mannequins”: Judy Geller to author, 2009. All Judy Geller quotes come from this interview.
555 “I thought, ‘Uh-oh, here it is’ ”: Susan Anton, quoted in Elvis World magazine, no. 84.
555 “She’s right here”: Elvis Presley, quoted in Guralnick, Peter, Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley.
556 “I was in shock”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Guralnick, Peter, Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley.
557 “He said, ‘You’ve got to come up here now’ ”: Patti Parry to author, 2009.
557 “I kicked the door in”: “Interview with Red West,” on the Web site Elvis Australia, May 29, 2008.
557 “I don’t even know”: Red West to Sonny West, “Interview with Sonny West,” by Scott Jenkins, on the Web site Elvis Australia, May 13, 2005.
557 “Oh, I was so sad!” Barbara Hearn to author, 2009.
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559 “he would be so damn drugged”: Lamar Fike to author, 1994.
559 “You probably think it’s crazy”: Reeca Smith Gossan quoting Elvis Presley to author, 2009. All Reeca Smith quotes come from this interview unless otherwise noted.
561 “I woke up”: Linda Thompson to author, 1977.
561 “People aren’t going to remember me”: Kathy Westmoreland quoting Elvis Presley to author, 1997.
562 “He was really”: “Priscilla Presley: Surviving Elvis,” by Sheila Weller, McCall’s magazine, May 1979.
562 “There was never no plan”: Colonel Tom Parker to Craig Rivera, Inside Edition, January, 1993.
562 his Hollywood career: In a 1972 audio interview for the documentary Elvis on Tour, Elvis said, “I cared so much until I became physically ill . . . I don’t think anyone was consciously trying to harm me. It was just Hollywood’s image of me was wrong . . . I was never indifferent. I was so concerned until that’s all I talked about . . . but it did not change, it did not change, and so I became very discouraged. They couldn’t have paid me no amount of money in the world to make me feel self-satisfaction inside.”
566 “Whoever got the guitar”: Elvis Presley, quoted in Guralnick, Peter, Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley.
567 “That show was such a sad sight”: e-mail, Joyce Bova to author, 2009.
567 “I was just so taken aback”: “Joan Blackman Talks,” Essential Elvis magazine, no. 23, 2002.
568 “He kind of held my hand”: Melissa Blackwood, quoted in Guralnick, Peter, Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley.
569 “Is that a real Elvis scarf?”: JoCathy Brownlee Elkington to Elvis, as told to author, 2009. All JoCathy Brownlee quotes come from this interview.
573 “He would come into town”: Tanya Tucker to author, 2009. All Tanya Tucker quotes come from this interview.
574 “My assistant