Since I was born in Germany, it's been difficult to get anything over the pond before Internet, or even a big TV coverage and the likes. My biological father was American, from Austin, Texas, but sadly sadly I never met him. He'd died in a car accident without ever knowing he'd a daughter. My mother didn't want to get married to him
She'd marry a German man who disliked my presence, and my mother didn't care either. But that German man liked music and I remember he'd played a lot of Elvis' early music when I was very little.
At age 9 I happened to watch The NBC Special by pure chance ! I'w remember the music from my early childhood and put a face to the man who sang it. I fell totally in love with him, with his laughter, his shy smile, his mimic, his movements, there was something that drawn me to him.
At this point I had no idea that I was half-American, my mother never told me. I didn't learn about it until I was 16 !!!!! By that time I was like the biggest Elvis fan in Europe, I kept a lot of US penpals to keep me updated on his career and everything, to send me records, memorabilia, etc. Most was behind my mother's back and I remember how she'd hit me when she'd find some material and throw everything in the garbage bin !!!!
Some of my childhood trauma stems from things like that.
Basically Elvis pulled me through the rough times, and it stayed that way ever since I can remember.
My biggest regret ever is that I never had the chance to see him in concert, never having met him, never having the chance to thank him for all he did for me. I know that I wouldn't have survive if not for Elvis !
There were years I thought of him less, others more, but he never ever left my heart.
As an adult I fell for him in great ways, his humour; his sensibility; his so beautiful eyes yet a mirror of eternal sadness; his generosity to a fault; his humble ways, he'd stayed human in spite of all the circus around his persona. He knew to never take it serious nor himself, he never grew a big head, even though it was on cost of his health in the end
I don't call myself a Elvis collector who has all the information on his life/career straight, not at all. I loved the human at a very tender age, it's been his soul which attracted me as a kid, and it never changed.
Often I had the feeling that I saw myself in him somehow, he ressembled me and my turn of life in many ways. I always had the feeling that I could understand him throughout ! In an interview he'd said that he is looking for his twin, a partner who ressembles him. It stunned me, and I knew exactly what he meant -it's been my eternal quest, too.
DON'T get me wrong here now, unlike the better part of girls I never sought to marry him or something. Funnily that idea never crossed my mind, I always thought he's more to me than that ! Much more !
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My mom used to tease me about it. I was five or six then. But what attracts him to me now as an adult.... First of all I would have to say his voice, the way he put a song across. Then it's something about his eyes that I can't quite put a finger on. I love the way he treated his fans. You don't see too many stars today who treat their fans that way. Last but certainly not least, his sense of humor. It was crazy but fun! The way he laughed was contagious! He didn't seem to be uptight in anyway.
It's more like...what was there to NOT be attracted to?
How many of ya'll even remember who 2 of those 3 are??
Originally Posted by TC_of_EAP
I was referring to something else.
