Baby, Let's Play House_ Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him - Alanna Nash [400]
575 “Elvis was really hurt”: Linda Thompson to author, 1977.
575 “I grabbed his head”: Barbara Leigh, e-mail interview with author, 2009.
575 “He told me”: Deborah Walley to Andrew Hearn, Essential Elvis magazine, no. 13, 2000.
575 “When he did”: Billy Smith to author, 1994.
577 “there’s no way”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in People magazine, December 4, 1978.
577 “She was a terror”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Ladies’ Home Journal, July 2003.
577 “he’d say”: Jo Smith to author, 1994.
578 “we were expected to say”: Billy Smith to author, 1994.
578 “That was our intention”: “Interview with Sonny West,” by Scott Jenkins, on the Web site Elvis Australia, May 13, 2005.
578 “the major turning point”: Linda Thompson to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1995.
578 “Let’s just go away”: Linda Thompson to author, 1977.
579 “I truly, truly loved him”: Linda Thompson to author, 1977.
579 “To this day”: Linda Thompson, quoted in Elvis World Magazine, no. 82.
579 “The band was afraid”: David Briggs to author, 1997.
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581 “Elvis was so kind”: Rosemary Alden, Essential Elvis magazine, March-April, 2002.
581 “I know this sounds funny”: Ginger Alden, Essential Elvis magazine, March-April, 2002.
582 “By one account”: Cole, James P., and Thompson, Charles C. II. The Death of Elvis.
582 “All right, listen”: Larry Geller quoting Elvis Presley to author, 2009.
583 “When we left”: Wink Martindale, quoted in Elvis World magazine, #44.
583 “He was self-conscious”: Michelle Beaulieu Hovey, quoted in Elvis By the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
583 “I knew something was different”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Elvis By the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
583 “he didn’t want”: Paul Beaulieu, quoted in Elvis By the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
583 “Please speak with Cilla”: Ann Beaulieu, quoting Elvis Presley in Elvis By the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
583 “I had a sinking feeling”: Ann Beaulieu, quoted in Elvis By the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
583 “I’d take Lisa”: “Priscilla Presley: Surviving Elvis,” by Sheila Weller, McCall’s magazine, May 1979.
583 “We underestimated his emotional pain”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Elvis By the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
584 “I feel so alone sometimes:” Elvis Presley, private note, as quoted in Elvis By the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor. Singer Wayne Newton ultimately bought the note and turned it into a song, “The Elvis Letter.” He told USA Today, April 17, 1992, “It reflects a man reaching to the ultimate for help. Once I digested it and got over the shock, I realized that it was feelings that I, too, had had at times . . . I realized—that kind of loneliness creeps into everybody’s life.”
584 “I don’t know who I can talk to anymore”: Elvis Presley, private note, as quoted in Elvis By the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.
584 “Sam, I love your sister”: Larry Geller quoting Elvis Presley to author, 2009.
585 “Elvis found out”: e-mail, Shirley Dieu to author, 2009.
585 “she doesn’t think it was an engagement gift.” Jo Alden, quoted in Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst: Elvis Day By Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
585 “One walks away”: quoted in Guralnick, Peter, and Jorgensen, Ernst: Elvis Day By Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music.
586 “When Elvis met Ginger”: Larry Geller to author, 2009.
586 “See Shirley”: Shirley Dieu to author, 2009.
586 Elvis and Ginger sat on the edge: Larry Geller to author, 2009.
587 “It was like old-fashioned times”: Ginger Alden, quoted in “World’s at Standstill for Elvis’ Fiancee,” by Lawrence Buser, Commercial Appeal, August 19, 1977.
587 “When he flew my family to Las Vegas”: Jo Alden to author, 1977.
587 “Ginger and I”: Shirley Dieu to author, 2009.
588 “My most treasured moment”: Rosemary Alden, Essential Elvis magazine, March-April, 2002.
588 “Elvis liked Ginger”: Joe Esposito, quoted on the Web site Elvis Australia.
588 “We even took her out”: Billy Smith to author, 1994.
588 “It depends on how you look at it”: Shirley Dieu to author,