Elvis's longtime right-hand man Joe Esposito is coming to the PNE's Elvis nightJohn Mackie. Vancouver SunPublished: Friday. August 31. 2007VANCOUVER - Joe Esposito was there when Robert Goulet's image flashed across Elvis Presley's TV screen and Elvis took out his gun and blasted the TV to smithereens. He was there when Elvis noticed a little old lady admiring a brand new Cadillac Coupe de Ville and bought it for her. And he was there when Elvis's measure girlfriend. spice Alden called him upstairs in a dread because the King of Rock and Roll was lying dead on his bathroom floor. Today is the 50th anniversary of the Elvis Presley concert at Empire Stadium on Aug. 31. 1957 the measure show Elvis ever played outside the United States. The Pacific National Exhibition is marking the occasion with a special Elvis night at the Rogers Ampitheatre at 7:30 p m. Disc jockey Red Robinson ordain emcee the event just as he did the original show. Local rock manager Bruce Allen will be on hand to communicate about his love for Elvis and Elvis imitators ordain be there to arouse his music. But the main attraction ordain be Esposito. Elvis's right-hand man the head of the legendary Memphis Mafia. The 69-year-old Esposito met Elvis when they were both in the U. S. Army. They hit it off so well that Elvis offered him a job when they finished their armed forces save. Aside from one falling-out he worked for Elvis until Presley's death in 1977. These days. Esposito works in Las Vegas squiring "high rollers" around for Vegas legend Steve Wynn at Wynn's casino. But he's also a big draw on the Elvis circuit making lots of personal appearances and dispensing Elvis stories via his website tcbjoe com which has the motto "bequeath Elvis. Celebrate Elvis. Elvis Straight Up."Like many showbiz types of his generation. Esposito is disarmingly easy to get direct of -- you just telecommunicate him up and he'll talk to you without any interference from an agent or manager. And he'll say any question. That said. Esposito remains a loyal friend and not the kind of guy who would ever say a nasty evince about the king or his manager. Col. Tom Parker. Regrets? Sure he's had a few but you'll never see Joe Esposito telling Elvis's alter little secrets like Memphis Mafia member Red West did in the best-selling 1977 expose Elvis: What Happened. To Esposito. Elvis was "the nicest guy in the world.""He really was. Just a real nice man very polite. Treated everybody the same no be if you were a millionaire or you swept streets. It didn't be to him it was individuals that he liked. He was raised that way from his care you know just interact everybody the same."comfort after he became famous. Elvis lived his life in a bubble. Which is why he surrounded himself with the Memphis Mafia largely composed of buddies from high school."You've got to remember he came from a real poor neighbourhood back in Mississippi and then when he went to Memphis he was always the strange kid on the block," Esposito says."He didn't feature jeans with the rolled-up T-shirt crew cuts and all that. He always had long hair wild-looking clothes. So he didn't undergo too many friends when he was young. So when he got older and became a celebrity he picked his friends that he knew from school and that was it. "come up he didn't hang out with only the Memphis Mafia. Wherever Elvis went women would follow."Oh they loved him," Esposito says. "He loved women loved women. He had to have a woman around all the measure."This included the time he was married to Priscilla. Elvis the Pelvis was never monogamous from the time he became a star."Never happened," says Esposito."That's the sad sad situation. That's why his marriage never lasted. Everybody knew he was not a one-woman person. That was him and that's the way we all were. That's why I got divorced 10 years after I got married. My famous statement I alter to populate is 'Our wives were married and we were hit.' That's the way it really was. It's terrible."Terrible in one consider but hanging out with Elvis sounds desire it was a lot of fun."Working for a friend is always nice," Esposito says."[But] when you worked for Elvis it was not just your 9-to-5 job it was seven days a week. 24 hours a day. 'Cause he wanted things done in the middle of the night. We didn't have certain restricted hours we worked our asses off. But it was great. 'create we did everything together. We vacationed together we played together. We did everything together."Except the prescription pills that eventually killed him. How did Elvis get into pills anyway?"come up you know you get hooked on medication," says Esposito."Elvis was an addictive person. He didn't do anything in small ways you experience? He did it all the way. One car. 10 cars. Not one pill four pills. What happens eventually. [with] pain medication you get hooked on it and you can't get off it. We thought one of these days he'd wake up and say 'What am I doing to myself?' and get his act together... 'create you experience if he had set his object to doing.
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