Iron Maiden - Aftermath

As the tour gained momentum, the colonel got the opportunity to plan several major operations. In early 1972, he signed an agreement with Metro-Goldwin-Mayer to create a new musical documentary: the box-office success of the film about the Woodstock rock festival fired Hollywood's appetites. Two directors selected by the studio - Bob Abel, a former classmate of Francis Ford Coppola at the Department of Cinematography at the University of Los Angeles, and Pierre Adage - themselves dedicated the English singer Joe Cocker to a film called Reservoir Dogs and the British. This time they wanted to lay bare the roots of the rock revolution on the example of the life path of the most famous of its creators. Nobody would stop them from filming Elvis's concerts, but they would hardly have been allowed to ask him about his career or insert pictures from his past into the film.Abel and Adige realized that the only chance to get around the colonel’s bans was to persuade Presley himself.