Do you know when and where Elvis made his last recordings, made his last live concert in Memphis. We cover this in our latest vlog ELVIS PRESLEY 1976
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0:00 January 1976
0:48 February 1976
1:35 March 1976
1:58 April 1976
2:24 May 1976
2:43 June 1976
3:00 We visit Memphis Mid-South Coliseum
4:05 July 1976
4:38 August 1976
4:51 We visit Von Braun Center, Hunsville, Alabama
5:56 Vickers Gas Station, Memphis
7:15 October 1976
8:05 November 1976
8:30 December 1976
9:05 Outro

Last Elvis recordings, last live Memphis appearance, Elvis last Las Vegas &Lake Tahoe shows. The next installment of my potted history of the life and career of Elvis Presley - an Elvis biography. Where possible I've included video I've taken in and around Memphis relating to the period, taken during our 2017 and 2019 trips. The beginning of 1976 saw the completion of Elvis Racquetball Building out the back of Graceland, soon followed by the first of two Elvis recording sessions held in the 'Jungle Room' of Graceland. The October session would be the very last time that Elvis recorded in a studio setting. 1976 would also see a staggering 9 separate Elvis tours, and on top of those was Elvis last ever Las Vegas Hilton shows and the last Elvis Sahara Tahoe hotel shows. Two other 'finals' while touring included Elvis' last live performance in Memphis at the Mid-South Coliseum, and the last time Elvis would perform a matinee and evening show - this was the Elvis concerts at Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Red West, Sonny West and Dave Hebler were fired by Elvis' father, Vernon. They would soon hook up with tabloid writer Steve Dunleavy for a 'tell-all' book. November would see Elvis and Linda Thompson, his long-time girlfriend, split up. Elvis begin his final long-term relationship with 20 year old Ginger Alden. Elvis New Year's Eve concert in Pittsburgh was one of the best Elvis performances of the year, which maybe gave hope that 1977 would be a better year........
Sources of information have been gathered since I was 12 years old!! Some (but not all) sources include books by Peter Guralnick, Ernst Jorgensen, Pal Granlund, David English, Erik Lorentzen, Alan Hanson, Paul Richardson and Keith Flynn. Websites include elvisinfonet.com, elvis.com/au, historic-memphis.com, elvisconcerts.com and the fascinating stories and information contributed by so many to the sites, and magazines 'Elvis The Man and His Music' and 'Essential Elvis'. Also the Memphis locations books 'Elvis - Memphis Style' by Mike Freeman and 'Follow Me To Memphis' by Andrew Hearn.

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Elvis spends his 41st birthday in the ski resort of Vail, Colorado.
16 January 1976 The racquetball building at the back of Graceland is completed.
2 February 1976 Elvis is reluctant to attend a recording studio, so RCA arrange for the recording mobile truck to be sent to Graceland.
the Jungle Room was cleared of the Polynesian style furniture to facilitate a made-up recording studio,
Recording sessions begin today, a few days late due to Elvis returning to Denver to attend the funeral of police friend Jerry Kennedy's bother
The tracks make up the 1976 LP 'From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee'
and singles 'Hurt' and 'Moody Blue'.
26 March 1976 On his way back to Graceland, Elvis stops at a road accident on Memphis' I-240.
So we're here at the the old Memphis Mid-South Coliseum and 16 March 1974 that elvis first played this arena Elvis is back here just a year later on Tuesday the 10 June 1975. Just one year later again Elvis was back at the Mid-South Coliseum on Monday 5 July 1976.
this would turn out to be Elvis's final appearance in Memphis The final show was to have been here at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis but of course that wasn't to be.
13 July 1976 While Elvis is at his California home, his father Vernon fires Red and Sonny West
along with Dave Hebler.
So we've come here to the Von Braun Center in Huntsville because this was a concert hall that Elvis played several times in the 70s and this was to be the last time he actually made two performances in one day while on a tour and both those shows actually have been released on the Follow That Dream label on a double CD called Elvis in Alabama and they were recorded here - Von Braun Center, Huntsville, Alabama.
That petrol station across the road was Vicker's gas station,
October 1976 Elvis was pictured with fans after he'd been on a ride on his motorcycles
Steve Dunleavy publishes an extract of Red West's phone conversation with Elvis,
29 October 1976 RCA's mobile recording truck is again parked out the back of Graceland.
'Way Down' / 'Pledging My Love' -
and 'Moody Blue' LP
........these would be the last 'studio' recordings that Elvis would make.
Elvis New Year's Eve 1976 a 90 minute show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.