elvis is being watched closely Music Buffs and a Miner Celebrate Elvis’ 76th Birthday

Edison Pena walks from the front door of Graceland, Elvis Presley’s home. Chilean miner Edison Pena serenaded his friends underground with the sweet sound of Elvis’ music, and Saturday he had the chance to sing in the King’s house.

Rescued Chilean miner Edison Pena is in Memphis for today’s celebration and will be taken on a private tour of Presley’s birthplace and his boyhood home in east Tupelo, Mississippi tomorrow. “We expect it to be a low-key day,” Guyton said. “I can’t describe it,” Pena said through an interpreter.

“We expect it to be a low-key day. “It’s something that makes an impact on me, visually. It’ll give us an opportunity to visit with folks,” Dick Guyton, executive director of the Elvis Presley Memorial Foundation, told the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. “We’ll be happy to show him around,” Guyton said. When the three of them went to the beach later that day, however, Elvis kept his shirt on despite the sticky heat. It was an appropriate pilgrimage for Pena who asked for the music to be sent down into the mine during the ordeal. “The sweetest of dreams.” Later this month, the miners are headed to Disney World. “Before people over fainted over Michael Jackson, screamed over Van Halen, swooned over the Jonas Brothers, and even goo-gooed over (Lady) Gaga, Elvis Presley set the world on fire,” Wharton said. The rock gods saw themselves in each other. Night after night, Elvis would show up and invariably join Tom on stage to the delight of the paying customers, who were getting two superstars for the price of one. More than once I heard him tell his road manager Chris Ellis: ‘Hide the spare microphone, Presley’s in.’ Like anyone else they had their off-days, too, and the remarks Elvis made about Tom when he sat in the audience were sometimes barbed. ‘Does he stick a sock down his trousers?’ I once heard Elvis ask as Tom writhed around on stage in his trademark skin-tight trousers. You never meet a real hero,” Parris said.

Edgar Hoover who he encouraged to have Lennon thrown out of the U.S ‘Tom will always tell him the truth, even if it hurts and nobody else dares do that. For one moment, Edison Pena again did what seemed impossible: He was bigger than Elvis. The marriage had been virtually sexless — he had put her on a pedestal and worshipped her in a way that exceeded physical expression. It turned out, however, Elvis’s calls to his wife had been far from conciliatory. Tom identified strongly with Elvis’s sense of outrage, even though his wife Linda had never left him — and never wanted to, despite his many dalliances.

Whenever John Lennon’s name came up, he would fly into a rage. The famously shy Pena struck up a tune at the behest of the assembled crowd, who greeted him with a celebration to rival the King’s.

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