Talking of Elvis Prestley, a fact about him few people know is that he was s very generous man.
We were regular visitors to Memphis in the mid-80s (not for Elvis reasons) and would be gently persuaded by the Pohlmans who lived in German town to stay with them. They were like most Americans, hospitable and kind. They told me that Elvis used to come in the neighbourhood usually after sunset to meet with one of his band members who lived there. His generosity was well known. He only had to know of or come across a needy individual and he would unload on them whatever expensive things he had in his possession at that time. The Pohlmans told me that once a relative of his guitarist having lost his job, walked for two miles just to get a glimpse of him in his cousin’s house. When Elvis caught a sniff of his dire straits, he just gave him his Cadillac (not the famous pink one which his estate still possesses and exhibits), on an impulse. In the old days when I first went to the Arabian Gulf in 1976, some Arabs used to do that too. But I’ll tell about that in another post. His Graceland mansion is in the Whitehaven community of Memphis. The city draws a huge crowd of music lovers and tourists to its Beale Street during its Bluegrass jazz festival. I had the good fortune to be at the festival one year during my visits to Memphis and it was a most happy experience. The people just let themselves go in gay abandon as if in a Carnival, to the jazz music pouring out of every second establishment, though there are police on massive horses patrolling all over, to keep the tall, muscular and sometimes rowdy southern black men in control. So was Elvis enlightened Joao Barros asks. From what I heard of him, yes. Roland. Toronto. > On Jan 18, 2019, at 5:18 AM, Joao Barros-Pereira > <[email protected]> wrote: > > A few days ago I bought a new pair of shoes on the way to Navelim - an > exciting place to be - especially during the feast with all the > excitement in the air even though there was no feast on this > auspicious day. > > Anyway, Elvis Presley was real proud of his leather shoes - Blue Suede > Shoes. It became a hit song which made him more than a million dollars > - a lot of money at the time. > > With that kind of money, was Elvis Presley enlightened, after all? I > don't know, maybe he was! >
