Reply With QuoteYes, Jen! I've heard about this event. I know that he crowd was hysterical and it was extremely difficult for the security men to stop it. And I've also heard that Elvis was rather shocked seeing the crowd coming towards him. Who wouldn't be anyway?
Night had settled over Empire Stadium on August 31, 1957. It was 9:45 on a clear, warm, late-summer night in Vancouver, British Columbia. Elvis Presley had just finished his opening number, "Heartbreak Hotel", and was half-way through his second song when, looking out from the stage, he saw the far end of of the stadium erupt. From where he stood on the platform a hundred yards away, it looked like excited insects spilling off an anthill as people crawled out of the stands and spread onto the grass. It grew like a wave as, from each adjoining section on both sides of the stadium, others poured onto the field to join the mass, now moving quickly toward the stage where Elvis continued his performance. "We'll never stop them now!" yelled a policeman, as he and his cohorts locked arms in a valiant effort to stem the flow.
On stage, Gordon Stoker of the Jordanaires watched the crowd collide with the cordon of cops, and fear began to take hold of him. He glanced up at Elvis and saw the fear mirrored back at him................
The above is an excerpt from the absorbing book, Elvis '57 The Fifties Tours by Alan Hanson, iUniverse, 2007, ISBN: 978-0595431229.
source: http://www.elvisinfonet.com/
Yes, Jen! I've heard about this event. I know that he crowd was hysterical and it was extremely difficult for the security men to stop it. And I've also heard that Elvis was rather shocked seeing the crowd coming towards him. Who wouldn't be anyway?
Goodbye Rosanne...Your "family" in TCB will always remember you.
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