Clutch - Goat Warfare

The sharply expressed hostility on the part of men, directly proportional to the worship of the opposite sex, was a danger, which was much more difficult to divert. The years of touring prior to leaving the army are marked by more or less serious incidents, provoked, as a rule, by men who were jealous of the signs of attention from the girls. Presley regularly insulted, threw eggs on stage, it even happened that some collisions took a bad turn. In Lubbock, Texas, one driver asked him to come, supposedly to give an autograph, and he hit him in the face and disappeared. In the fall of 1956, the singer had a fight with a gas station employee in Memphis, and six months later, with a young military man who accused him of disrespect for his wife. In both cases, Elvis had to repent in court to calm the passions.