The phone rang with news that no one in Elvis Presley’s inner circle wanted to hear. He had been rushed to Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis on the afternoon of August 16, 1977. Within minutes, his closest associates were racing down the hospital corridors, hoping to witness—once again—the kind of miracle they had seen so many times before. Elvis had survived health crises in the past, and those closest to him firmly believed he would pull through this time as well. But when they…
The telephone rang with a message so devastating that no one within Elvis Presley’s closest...