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It has been reported that Presley had 199 different prescriptions which totaled to about ten thousand pills the year he died (1977).
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Presley, his parents, his grandmother, and his golden palomino quarter horse, Rising Sun, are all buried at Graceland.
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In the early 1970s Presley would impersonate a police officer, driving around with a blue light, a long flashlight, a billy club, and guns, and pulling people over. Instead of giving out tickets, he would hand out his autograph.
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When Elvis met boxing icon Muhammad Ali, he gave him one of his robes declaring the boxer, “The People’s Champion.” Ali in return gave Elvis a pair of boxing gloves that said, “You’re the greatest.”
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During the 1970s Elvis started every concert with “Also Sprach Zarathustra,” a nineteenth-century Richard Strauss tone poem and the theme to 2001: A Space Odyssey, because he liked its rhythm and movements.
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