Elvis shot his television when this singer was performing
The television and the ball are both exhibited in Graceland.
When you are one of the most famous people on the planet, everything with which you are in contact can become memories, no matter how strange it seems. In the case ofElvis Presley, this includes a TV with a ball hole on the screen. This set is exposed to Graceland because the singer has famous him while another musician performed in a television program.
Curiously, that television is not the only Presley that targeted - it's just the only one that was kept for the museum. Read the rest to find out more about the King's surprising habit, including what he was watching when he turned this particular TV.
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Presley turned the television when another singer was performing.
In 2006, a spokesperson for Graceland, the Maison de Presley, transformed into a museum, shared the history of the 25-inch TV RCA and explained that Presley was looking at a performance by the actor and the singerRobert Goulet at the time.
"There was nothing Elvis against Robert Goulet. They were friends", "Kevin Kern said to the Associated Press (via PBS). "But Elvis has just drawn things on a random basis."
Goulet did not take it personally.
In a 2004 interview with Memphis'The commercial call (via the Elvis information network), Goulet was questioned about Presley's extreme reaction to his performance.
"When he turned the TV? He also fired out of 50 other people," said Goulet. "They told me that he had about a hundred sets in the basement. And he was shooting the fucking thing - you know he was on pills and he didn't quite know what he Do it and he struck! And they "watch them each other and say:" Get another set! They mention me all the time. "
Goulet said he had found that Presley was "a charming, delicious and delicious man". He added the shooting of the television: "The fact is that I knew that he was not himself so it was nothing to do with me. He pulledMel tort. He shotFrank Sinatra]. But I receive all the credit. ""
The TV is still working.
AccordingExpress, during a virtual visit to Graceland, archivistAngie Marchese explained that television, which was at the house of Palm Springs of Presley,continued to work after shooting it.
"It's true, Robert Goulet was on television and the real ball that was on television missed all the tubes," said Marchese. "This television still works and the ball that was inside the TV is part of the collection."
Marchese said the TV was kept so that he could stay in the collection in his original state. "We entered the interior to preserve this screen and epoxy so that these cracks no longer spread," she continued.
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It was a habit of Presley.
As indicated byExpress, Cousin de Presley and member of his famous entourage of Memphis Mafia,Billy Smith,,spoke the trends in the star's television shooting On the YouTube channel of Memphis Mafia Kid of her son.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
During a question and answer session, Smith answered the question of why Presley did this. "Most of the time, he wanted it," said Smith. "It varied by many different things. It could be something he saw on television or it could be something that had disturbed him."
Smith continued: "Often you had to wait a little later until Elvis somehow passes everything that bored him and then he would tell you." Smith said Presley "could have been angry with someone or something that had happened" and that he "would take that" a television.
"He has shot several televisions," said Smith. "Often, I found it funny, in a way, because of the way he was. He answered quickly. If something bored him, it was, you know how to take the pistol, the boom! And He never thought of it twice. "
The TV is exposed in a special Graceland room.
In 2017, a new $ 45 million entertainment complex opened its doors in Graceland, which houses the Goulet TV, as well as other Presley memories, including some of its outfits. Inside the Graceland manor, there is also the entertainment room of the legend, which has several televisions.
"You get the whole range of who was Elvis Presley", his wife, Priscilla Presley , said at the opening, as PBS reported. "You can see and participate a little in his life and what he loved and what he liked to collect."
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