Dark New Day - Taking Me Alive

This period of uncertainty was also marked by many difficulties and troubles: disappointment with Charro!, Work on which did not live up to expectations, strained relations with Priscilla and the departure of one after another people from his close circle. Nick Adams was the first to leave the world - he died of a drug overdose in February, two months before Steve Scholes, who was struck by a heart attack. Then came the turn of his uncle Johnny Smith, the younger brother of Gladys, who taught him in childhood, in Tupelo, to play the guitar. Recently, Johnny had kidney problems, and they finished him off in a few weeks. Shortly thereafter, Bobby's cousin broke off the long struggle with depression with a strong dose of rat poison, and a few weeks later Dewey Phillips, who also survived in a deplorable way, burned down because he did not spare himself at all.Just like after the death of Billy Black from a brain tumor in the fall of 1965, a whole chapter from Elvis’s life was deleted.