This could be it.

He needn’t have worried - his sizzling performance on the TV special changed everything.

Bruce Springsteen describes them in the film as transformative: “It’s just a musical revelation.

Split images of Elvis Presley shaking hands with Richard Nixon, Austin Butler posing as Elvis, and Elvis Presley sitting with Ginger Alden

That was the re-birthing of Elvis Presley, he says.

It was like a reincarnation.).

Released from the straitjacket imposed by Parker, Presleys performances sizzled.

Andrea Pietra, Carla Peterson and Ricardo Darín in The Eternaut

His relationship with his wife Priscilla had been a complex one from the very start.

They met in 1959 when she was just 14 and Elvis was 24 and on draft duty in Germany.

We all know how it ends.

Jackie sitting in My Life with the Walter Boys

But after the ‘68 special, I like to think he walked off that stage happy.”

SOURCES:elvispresleymusic.com,pbs.org

Elvis Presley singing on stage in 1977

Elvis Presley in front of a blue background

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The poster from Elvis’ comeback special

Priscilla Presley as Jane in The Naked Gun

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