Sick Of It All - Insurrection

There he fell into the hands of the barber, who cut him according to the charter. For the first time in many months, Elvis returned to her natural hair color, and the blond private pulled on a khaki uniform. The haircut ended in a brawl when fifty of the journalists present at her attacked the dyed curls, greatly amusing the colonel. A few days later, Elvis’s lock of hair even appeared as a prize in a radio quiz. “I was acquainted with a guy from a base in El Paso who picked up a tuft of Elvis hair,” says host Chuck Blor. “With this lock I got a higher rating than with the prize of 10 thousand dollars, which was played out two months earlier.” The piquancy of this story is added by the fact that in fact this hair could not belong to Presley, because he was cut several hundred kilometers from El Paso.