When Elvis died, do you remember when/where you first heard it

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Forty seven years ago today I was in a big carpet warehouse store with very few people in it at the time. I was shopping for carpet I would put in my newly built cabin on the side of a mountain in the Shenandoah valley (part of the why of my "bigmtnman" moniker). They had a table radio playing at the help desk and an Elvis song was drifting all around the big warehouse. When the song finished the DJ said something about the "late" (!?!?) Elvis Presley. I went way over to the counter and asked the guy there did I just hear something about the LATE Elvis Presley !? He replied yes, Elvis is dead. I was never a HUGE fan, but I gained a lot of respect for him after his comeback "Aloha from Hawaii" concert. I had gone to an Elvis concert when I had the chance just a few years before he died. It was wonderful. When he did "American Trilogy" it sent shivers ........ I certainly do remember !
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working a day shift at the AF Detachment in Lamar, CO. guy in the front office came back to the radio room and told us he had died. I thought of my sister from Memphis who was a huge Elvis fan. called her that night and she could hardly talk. Lee
 
I don't remember Elvis's death. However, I do remember the night John Lennon died vividly. I also remember the night Princess Diana died, but that had more to do with my date for the evening.
 
I'll never forget it . We had a clerk in our squadrons office , and he was an avid Elvis fan . On the day it happened he walked up to the First Sgt's desk and asked for the day off , so he could mourn Elvis . True story , and I'll remember that until the day I die . Oh yeah , the First shirt stared him down and told him to get the h*** out of his office .
 
I was fifteen years old and still remember. Mainly because of how much you traumatized the people that were older than me.
 
I was nearly seven years old, and I remember a kid in I guess what was second grade and a kid in my class said something about it. Probably would have been 2 weeks after his passing.

This fantastic actor passer away 3 days after Elvis, but it’s said no one really recalls his passing as it was drowned out by all the press coverage for Elvis:

Groucho Marx - Wikipedia

When Michael Jackson passed away, the sane thing happened to Farrah Fawcett.
 
I was with my wife in our car driving east on University Drive in Irvine, CA just before the big Culver Drive intersection. It was lunchtime in California, and we were on our way to a nearby restaurant when the news broke. Neither of us was a big fan, but we respected his skills and were both hit by the news. Well known people can die anytime, but 40-something seemed like a Way Too Soon occurrence.

Now that I think of it, I was in a car going someplace with others when a few other noteworthy deaths or catastrophes hit the news. I must have been in motion more than I thought I was before I retired several years ago.
 
I was 8 yrs old. I was at Lake Aire Lodge on the west arm of Lake Nippising in Ontario Canada. Mom was a little sad. Dad didn’t care, and I just wanted to drive the old cedar strip boat and catch big Pike.
 
I was at the University of Kentucky’s agricultural engineering building on campus where I worked summers in between semesters. I walked out of the shop annex into the main building. One of the secretaries (the prettiest one) was crying inconsolably. She had traveled to Indianapolis a few weeks before to see Elvis in what would be his final concert. She had tickets for his upcoming performance later that month at Rupp arena in Lexington. I’ll never forget the look of despair on her face.
 
I was watching tv in my grandmas living room , there was a news flash about Elvis’s passing .
my grandmother remarked how my mom would be devastated because she was a big fan . Just always stuck with me
My mom had a big stack of 45s , mostly Elvis that were my first tastes of rock n roll
we had no radio to speak of on the ranch so it was Elvis on the turntable or Louis lamour on the shelf . Listen read repeat lol
 
Rustyt1953 said:
I was a 24 year old troubadour in Randolph County, NC.

I remember thinking: "on the toilet!"
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I wasn’t going to mention this, but since you bring it up, it was after a game of racquetball. As an old racquetball player, I have probably experienced something close to what he was feeling. I don’t remember where I heard it, but I learned the sordid details on a visit to Graceland in 1990. On the drive down, I played a lot of old Elvis, and of course, Paul Simon. I came to appreciate his music a lot more as an adult.
 
I was driving alone on a rural blacktop road in Sunflower County, Mississippi, just a few minutes away from my Uncle and Aunt's house, and heard it on the radio. When I got there I told them. While I was not what you would call a huge Elvis fan, I did enjoy his music, and was thankful I got to see him live in his last Memphis concert in old Mid-South Coliseum in 1977.

I think that if you were a southerner of my generation, you will always remember where you were when you heard of Elvis's death, and where you were when you heard of Bear Bryant's death.
 
Yes, my old buddy and I were both painters. We were on summer break from college. We were painting a large 2 story house. I was holding on to the chimney and Korby was tied off to me, painting underhangs. The news came over the radio. We were stunned. We drank a toast to Elvis at lunch that day. Ice cold Coke. Will always remember that day. Korb passed in 2018.
 
I was playing poker in the squadron conference room and winning big. All I said was Elvis had left the building.
 
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