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Morning inside his dressing room in graceland, and it was there ginger discovered him. >> i went inside, i opened the door. >> panicked members of his group try to revive him. the medical examiner, one of the prime architects of what i long ago labelled the elvis cover-up. the conspiracy to hide his drug abuse from his heartbroken fans. >> the result of the autopsy are the cause of death is a cardiac arrhythmia due to undetermined causes. >> i have been praying about that. i hope and pray he didn't do it on purpose. >> more than worried about money near the end, elvis is no longer the slim sex...

Sold his music for a fraction of what they were worth. unable to make more royalties on songs recorded before 1973. sole heir, lisa marie, was just nine years old when elvis died. her mom took colonel parker to court. he accepted a large fee to turn over most of his interests in presley's recordings to rca and the presley family. in january of 1997, the colonel died of a stroke. under priscilla's firm guidance, graceland was born, and made into an enterprise for the public. >> elvis gave us so much. i don't know of any entertainer in the world that loved his fans like he did. in 2004, lisa mar...

From american life. how do you feel about? >> well, the generation that you're talking about as far as i'm concerned. it is something natural. just my way of expressing my song, i can't help it. >> and you will still express yourself like that in the future? >> i put it like this, if i stand still i'm dead. >> screaming fans out there. do you still like screaming girls? >> if it wasn't for them i would have to re-up in the army, i'll tell you. >> one girl he can't get enough of is the 14-year-old daughter of an army colonel he served with in germany. elvis brings her back to memphis. >> elvis,...

Bus, maybe i have a shot. it has been a great ride, what a giver he was. >> elvis gave jerry shilling a house. >> it is just a home, geraldo, he was a very sensitive guy, he knew i lost my mother when i was a-year-old. i lived in the memphis neighborhood. and one day i was -- he gave me a check and said jerry, i know you lost your mother. and he said you never had a home. i wanted you to be the one to give it to. then he came up here, spent time. and i've been here for 40 years. ten years before that, i lived at graceland. >> elvis shared some of his anxieties about the comeback with hit singe...

Image for $53 million in cash, absolving graceland of any debt. >> i thought wow, this whole thing of elvis has created jobs everywhere. you know, from doing this making suits and wigs and festivals. all kinds of stuff. >> australian mark anthony won the ultimate elvis championship for the south pacific and was flown to memphis to perform. he and american dwight eisenhower, no relation to the late president are among the top elvis tribute artists in the world. >> 180,000 tributes, that is a lot of competition, how good of a living do you make? >> i do about 200 dates a year, i do it full-time,...