Taking Back Sunday - This Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know)

The premiere of the concert, prepared for the cream of the society of American rich people invited by Kirk Kerkorian, was supposed to take place on the last day of July, on the eve of the official start of the contract with Elvis. In the past two weeks, he has constantly rehearsed with new musicians to make a final fine-tuning together with a large international band of thirty musicians. Presley never had patience and poise, but in the last week before the premiere, he bit his nails and tormented himself like never before. “He was not a man to admit that he was scared, but this could be understood by his nervousness,” his wife writes. “Usually he managed to restrain his anxiety until it exploded, and then he attacked the first who turned up on his arm.”