25. February 1961 - Claridge hotel, Memphis (on the same day it had two appearances in the Ellis auditory).
From Graceland No. 27/1983
German translation: Bernhard Seibel
F: Elvis….
Elvis: Yes, sir.
F: I would like to apologize with you for the first question, but everyone would like to know, what is with your dear life?
(Laughters)
Elvis: Now, it did not develop itself further. (Laughters) it is about like that, like it was, nothing seriousness. I let it know you, if somewhat does… I cannot it secret anyway not keep.
F: Do you believe that your career will employ you in such a way that you will be with 70 still bachelor?
Elvis: That is really difficult to say. I do not think. It is rather like that I am not yet ready for a marriage, that is everything, and to I so far am, want I it also to try. But it is not because of the career. It is only like that I am ready not yet for it and still nobody found, from which I makes itself as many.
F: Do you find that your personal taste changed itself from the Rock'n roll to the kind music, which we those call commercially better kind of music? Did your personal taste change?
Elvis: No, he did not change. I always liked all kinds of music. I do not like excluding Rock'n roll, I estimate all kinds real of music. But I must do that, what I can do best, therefore I make rock music.
Not to understand (question and answer)
F: Do you plan to go soon again to Hollywood?
Elvis: Now, approximately to 25. March begins I a new film.
F: Which kind film?
Elvis: It is a kind play. It is called “Blue Hawaii”. That is everything that I know for the moment about it.
F: What is your favourite plate?
Elvis: Of those, which I took up, my favourite plate is “Now Or Never”. Of it more than of were sold all different, after “Don't fuel element Cruel”. Of “Don't fuel element Cruel” were still sold at most.
F: Did “Don't sell itself fuel element Cruel” better than “Now Or Never”?
Elvis: I think, of “Now Or Never” something over four million was sold.
F: How often did “Don't sell itself fuel element Cruel”?
Elvis: About six million.
F: As much I white, you to about 75 million plates sold. Such a thing does mean like a record in the record industry?
Elvis: That is really not common me. I think, cover all, all albums, all…. everything in summary.
F: Is that everything for RCA Victor?
Elvis: Correctly, everything for Victor. But…. Sir? Me nothing is well-known over the fact that means a record.
Question: Which kind of role would you like to play in your films? Does a role in a Western or dramatic roles please you? What do you prefer?
Elvis: Now, I would like to play a dramatic role, but I… I am not yet ready also for it. I do not have enough experience with the looking plaything and again, until I so far am, would be stupid it to play somewhat very dramatic.
F: What with their musical, is how “Loving You”? Do you plan to make more in this kind? that was one of my favorites.
Elvis: Villeicht in this kind, Schätzchen. That is left actual mostly to the studios. But you can be verischert that it will give that in almost any music… must like that be.
F: When is “game in The Country” to come out?
, I believe Elvis May or June.
F: Elvis, already filled out you your income tax return?
Elvis: I think, my tax auditor that made, Mr. Fisher. It worries around it.
F: Did your eating habits change, since you became to dismiss from the army?
Elvis: No, Madam.
F: Since you back are, do you eat still stärkehaltige and fetthaltige Spiesen, how you did it before?
Elvis: I eat still approximately the same. I got accustomed to it, it am heavy to change.
F: Which plate will you publish as next?
Elvis: I did not gemcht it yet. I did not take up it yet. I cannot say anything to you about it.
F: How does it that you did not publish the soundtrack of “Flaming star”, come neither on EP nor as single?
Elvis: I do not know. I assume, he was commercially suitable in its eyes, in order to present it to the public. I do not know it really. That is left RCA Victor.
F: Elvis, possibly move you after Hollywood or remain you here?
Elvis: No, sir, I remains here. I have a house…. (Applause)… I leased a house, will be it always and a Herfahren there, really. But I will have my home always here, as long as I can.
F: Elvis, have you possibly which new hobbies? When we spoke the last mark with you, you began straight with carats.
Elvis: I practice that still little.
F: Do you have still possibly which other things?
Elvis: No, sir, it does not give anything Neus. I do not have really much time.
F: Do you believe that with your personal entertainments in the last years something changed? Do you still as much roller skate run or you the something limited?
Elvis: Now, we run still little roller skate… break boards…. (Laughters).
F: What is with ice skate running? Did you ever try to run ice skate?
Elvis: No, Ma'am. I never tried ice skate running out. But I make still nearly the same, I not so often make it, because since I have the army behind me, I had, know not as much time you. I was very busy, had to hurry from film to film.
F: What there also is your time with this property above the lake, which belongs to your father, spends you?
Elvis: Now, I became gladly. We remember to build there either a small hut or acquire a camper, one of both. I do not know yet, how we decide.
F: In which of your films did you offer the best look-playful achievement?
Elvis: King Creole.
F: What?
Elvis: King Creole.
F: Elvis, why you are not more frequent in the television?
Elvis: How it would be with an impact! Now, because of the existing film contracts, I am now nevertheless very bound to the film. Too much television harms the films little.
F: Do you like personal appearances, films or television most of all?
Elvis: I like personal appearances most of all, although I do not know, how that looks today, because I was not for more than three years any more on the stage. I forgot most words of the songs, which belonged to my repertoire, and I had hardly opportunity to rehearse with the volumes.
F: Will you go from here in March to Hawaii to make over this film and also this kind charity concert?
Elvis: Correctly. We give a charity concert for the battle ship to “Arizona”.
F: Since you were not three years any more on the stage, are you somewhat nervous?
Elvis: Yes, sir. It does not constitute me anything to admit. But when I made the franc Sinatra show in Florida, I was not nervous, I was rigid, I was rigid before fear. (Laughters).
F: When you brought your first plate out, did you think that your career would be as successful as now?
Elvis: No, I believe, nobody remembered, not truely, Mrs. Philipps? (Laughters). I did not believe, nobody had actually this thought.
F: Did Frank Sinatra give, in order to return to it, gave these people with Frank Sinatra production you sufficiently opportunity to the appearance in this evening?
Elvis: Oh, surely, but my movements and my trembling were not connected with the music, it came of my fear. (Laughters) however they gave me sufficiently time, must you know.
F: Did they do that?
Elvis: Yes, they were very nice.
F: How could one give you sufficient time? Only six minutes of one hour.
Elvis: It would have been good, if I had only come in and had again gone out. Is there some more that I can there answer?
F: What is with your Cheesburgern?
Elvis: I do not eat any longer so many Cheeseburger.
F: Elvis, smoke you or drink you alcohol?
Elvis: I smoke now and then a cigar.
F: Which is with…. do you drink?
Elvis: No…. (Laughters). It is like that, if the Colonel gives me cigars - it is very unusual.
F: Like for a long time you will remain in Memphis, Mr. Presley?
Elvis: I become around the 18. , Mr go away to March around. Johnson, as far as I can grasp.
F: How much did golden records get you altogether?
Elvis: I got 34, 34 golden records.
F: That is more than your next rival. Does it make you happy that you possess more golden records than otherwise someone?
Elvis: It makes me and the government happy (laughters).
F: Elvis, based on your past career, would say you that you have the ambition and the enthusiasm, in order to take up a special song or a kind of music, which you did not take up so far yet?
Elvis: Now, eh….
F: Is there something special there, what you would like to still do? Everything which you so far did, was a kolossaler success.
Elvis: Now, definitely there is that, but I would like to try my luck too much, to let would not like it not on it arrive, know you. As long as it goes well, I would not like… why to change, before I had a reason to it. If then will I will change what I do now… if nobody… if it any longer do not herüberkommt,… I and will do something.
F: Does it fall them heavily to meet the selection of your clothes?
Elvis: Not particularly. Particularly not, because I know not as much about clothes. It makes no difference real.
F: Elvis, you became somewhat more conservative.
Elvis: Now, one becomes somewhat older (laughters). It is as with the Koteletten, for one while was it okay, aberman grows out of there.
F: Do you miss it?
Elvis: The Koteletten?
F: Yes.
Elvis: Not particularly (laughters). The army worried about it.
F: Elvis, meet you at present with a special girl?
Elvis: If I answer, I lose a quantity of friends. (Laughters)
F: What is with the rumor over Nancy Sharpe?
Elvis: Is Anita here somewhere? No, I white not, it was one of these agreements, know you, I met only several times with it. It is already spaßig, there goes one several times with a girl out and already is it the large love. They married me already several times. I was one evening down at the Wilshire boulevard, in the lobby of a theatre, as if some people said: “I thought, you were in Mexico town center in the Flitterwochen!” I found, it out stood for a Mexican newspaper that I had burned through and had come to marrying there, and they had reserved a Suite to hotel and whole things. I did not even know the girl, whom I should marry. Such things occur.
F: Elvis, most people in the Showgeschäft are superstitious. Do they have a special superstition?
Elvis: Now, I am very superstitiously, which determined…. do you speak now over black cats or the like?
F: Something determining?
Elvis: No. Only small things like broken mirrors (laughters), photographers. (Laughters). Their photographer will now mutually photograph you. (Laughters).
F: Elvis, think you much ahead?
Elvis: Somewhat already.
F: How do they see the position in the maintenance industry in ten years?
Elvis: I will somewhat say, Mr to you. Johnson, in the maintenance industry is to be forecast it so heavy, something, which humans change, the times changes, it would be really heavy to say somewhat over it. I would not like to try it to answer the only one, which I can say to it, I try, mean to way out of actor to go, require a long time, a quantity of work and a quantity of experience. But I try to reach it in this way and if I can be established, is it okay, but I do not know, like for a long time the musical part of it will outlast, I white not, how long I will be there. I have really no notion.
F: They have now only two personal appearances planned, as I understand.
Elvis: Correctly.
F: Do you plan to go soon to tour?
Elvis: Now, the Colonel could answering that probably better than I. At this moment there nothing is planned. I know that we must make a European tour in the course of the time by all these countries, which lent these honors and other things. But I do not know exactly…. (turned to the side): We any become….?
Colonel Parker: Wri wait on the offers.
Elvis: He said that. I not.
F: How is your weight now, Elvis?
Elvis: 180.
F: How was it, when you came approximately one year ago from the army?
Elvis: 175, when I came out. I increased about five Pound.
F: Elvis, you have such a hectic life, I could imagine that you would like simply your money to take and above all run away?
Elvis: The government would not permit it that I would take all my money and simply would run away. (Laughters) no, it pleases me. Every time I would like to be alone, it can do it, knows you.
F: I know, but are there as many humans, who always look for your proximity.
Elvis: But those are the things, from which one can draw its advantage, as long as they persist. They can draw from their advantage because they will later perhaps not have and it to miss. They will miss humans, them will become the whole hecticness to miss and so on. I have a beautiful time…. and so on.
F: Do you feel always at home, if you come to Memphis?
Elvis: Yes, sir, then is it.
F: Well, then we want to also leave it.
Elvis: Safe is it like that. That is a reason, why I a house maintenance, because… I mean, California here pleases me, I work gladly there, but if the film is terminated, it pushes me to get away and home drive there, in addition I am also in close proximity to Tupelo. I know a quantity of people down there, the same gang, with which I, lives buildup still there in the same houses. I was three weeks ago ago there down and the wind had the sign umgerissen, which they had attached there at this youth centre under construction. They had attached a large sign, but the wind blew it over, and we tried to set up it again, it fell on us. We were too third, when we tried to set up it again.
F: When do you expect that the youth centre will be finished?
Elvis: I cannot say it. That will require a quantity money. It will become in the course of the time. I cannot say when.
F: I heard that you have a lot of animals outside in Graceland.
Elvis: We have a few small Maultiere.
F: What is with this ape?
Elvis: Still there it is.
F: Do you possess nch this Basset, with which one photographed you?
Elvis: No, that was Frank Sinatra's dog (laughter) you dictates to me here the questions up.
F: How many cars possess you, Elvis?
Elvis: Four.
F: Four?
Elvis: Two of it are new. One of it, the pink cars, was that, which my mother all different one preferred, therefore I kept.
F: Is that the Cadillac?
Elvis: It is first, which I possessed ever.
F: Elvis, would like you still sports cars?
Elvis: No, sir. Not particularly. I had one in Germany. They can prepare a quantity annoyance.
F: What was your most exciting experience in the Showgeschäft, Elvis?
Elvis: That is difficult to say. Some things passed, but I can call for the moment nothing outstanding thing, really. I assume… I could introduce itself, when I got the first golden record, because that was something, of which I did not believe, it takes place ever.
F: What was your first golden record?
Elvis: Heartbreak hotel, sir.
Further questions are answered off here of Colonel Parker.
Nice interview, but the translation from German to English is a bit strange. It looks like as if the translator translated the sentences as they were in German, without changing the order of the wordsSome of the words are not even translated. It doesn't look very professional
I've never read this interview before and it was nice reading it anyway!Thanks Jen!
yes marija l had to translate it over to english. I got a frend who's deaf and loves elvis so l try to find things she can read in english.Originally Posted by marijaep
Nice interview, but the translation from German to English is a bit strange. It looks like as if the translator translated the sentences as they were in German, without changing the order of the words
I've never read this interview before and it was nice reading it anyway!
Thanks for the interview!
"How do I get placed in situations like this? Ah hell, I guess it's all part of showbusiness "~ Elvis in his limo on his way to perform in Omaha, NE on June 19th 1977
Aww, well, that's very nice of you Jen!
Thank you marijaAww, well, that's very nice of you Jen!
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