JERRY LEE’S STILL ROCKIN’ HIS LIFE AWAY

In the last years of his life, the only thing that separated Elvis Presley from Mel Torme and Jerry Vale was his refusal to appear on The Merv Griffin Show. His once intrepid tastelessness had devolved into mere mediocrity. He dyed his hair for all the wrong reasons, and he prayed to the housewive's Christ. In the end, he threw it all away for a broad, and died with less dignity than Louis Prima. No matter how much mystery surrounds Elvis Presley, one thing can be said with surety: no king of rock 'n' roll ever did the Clam.

Elvis had a chance to, save his worthless \\(e, but he didri't recognize it. Oh November 23, 1976, Jerry ,Lee Lewis halted his Lincoln Continental at \ 3764 Elvis Presley Boulevard—Graceland: the hermitage that Elvis had bought 19 years before as a gift for that woman without vulva from whose lap he had never truly risen; the hermitage that, sincte his mother's death, had becorhe that lap. Jerry Lee Lewis stepped forth from his Lincoln. He waved a pistol and shouted for Elvis. But ElOis refused to see him, and a Graceland security guard had him arrested and charged with public drunkenness.