Hoods - By My Side

This incident marked a breakdown, which will now only worsen. Elvis longed for a long time on the stage, thinking that only contact with the audience could support the flickering inner fire, and only now realized the inevitability of his dissatisfaction. It was hard to survive the period of complete inactivity after speaking at the Internationale; for the first time in his career, after many years when filming followed filming, he had absolutely nothing to occupy himself for several long months. No matter how much he traveled between Beverly Hills, Graceland and his villa in Palm Springs, he was depressed by the emptiness of his days. Rather, nights, as he had never before tried to escape from everyday life, hiding from daylight. Like a vampire, Elvis woke up at dusk and swallowed the barbiturates with the first rays of dawn, which he could not do without to sleep.