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Elvis: The man behind the music
  • ELVIS: '68 COMEBACK SPECIAL -- Pictured: Elvis Presley during his '68 Comeback Special on NBC -- (Photo by: Frank Carroll/Gary Null/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
  • Lisa Marie Presley, Priscilla Presley & Elvis Presley (Photo by Magma Agency/WireImage)
  • Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie Presley & Elvis Presley (Photo by Magma Agency/WireImage)
  • LAS VEGAS, NV - AUGUST 1: Rock and roll musician Elvis Presley & his father Vernon chat after a press conference after his first performance at the International Hotel on August 1, 1969 in Las vegas, Nevada . (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
  • LAS VEGAS, NV - AUGUST 1: Rock and roll musician Elvis Presley during a press conference after his first performance at the International Hotel in Las vegas, Nevada on August 1, 1969. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
  • LAS VEGAS, NV - AUGUST 1: Rock and roll musician Elvis Presley during a press conference after his first performance at the International Hotel in Las vegas, Nevada on August 1, 1969. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
  • LAS VEGAS, NV - AUGUST 1: Rock and roll musician Elvis Presley during a press conference after his first performance at the International Hotel in Las vegas, Nevada on August 1, 1969. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
  • LAS VEGAS, NV - AUGUST 1: Rock and roll musician Elvis Presley during a press conference after his first performance at the International Hotel in Las vegas, Nevada on August 1, 1969. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
  • (Original Caption) LAS VEGAS, NEV.: Foreign and domestic newsmen gather around Elvis Presley during an August 1st press conference following his July 31st opening at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. "I'm really glad to be back in front of a live audience," Presley told about 150 members of the press. "I don't think I've ever been more excited than I was tonight." Elvis, performing public for the first time in nine years, got four standing ovations during the show.
  • Elvis Presley's landmark TV special was taped in June 1968 and aired December 3, 1968, on NBC.
  • ELVIS: '68 COMEBACK SPECIAL -- Pictured: Elvis Presley (left) during a press conference for the Elvis '68 Comeback Special on NBC -- (Photo by: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
  • ELVIS: '68 COMEBACK SPECIAL -- Pictured: Elvis Presley during his '68 Comeback Special on NBC -- (Photo by: Frank Carroll/Gary Null/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
  • ELVIS: '68 COMEBACK SPECIAL -- Pictured: Elvis Presley during his '68 Comeback Special on NBC -- (Photo by: Frank Carroll/Gary Null/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
  • ELVIS: '68 COMEBACK SPECIAL -- Pictured: Elvis Presley during his '68 Comeback Special on NBC -- (Photo by: Frank Carroll/Gary Null/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
  • ELVIS: '68 COMEBACK SPECIAL -- Pictured: (l-r) Elvis Presley during his '68 Comeback Special on NBC -- (Photo by: Frank Carroll/Gary Null/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
  • ELVIS: '68 COMEBACK SPECIAL -- Pictured: Elvis Presley during "Trouble" intro during his '68 Comeback Special on NBC -- (Photo by: Frank Carroll/Gary Null/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
  • ELVIS: '68 COMEBACK SPECIAL -- Aired 12/3/68 -- Pictured: Elvis Presley during a performance at NBC Studios in Burbank, CA (Photo by Gary Null//NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
  • BURBANK, CA - JUNE 27: Rock and roll musician Elvis Presley performing the song "Trouble" on the Elvis comeback TV special on June 27, 1968 in Burbank, California. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
  • BURBANK, CA - JUNE 27: Rock and roll musician Elvis Presley performing on the Elvis comeback TV special on June 27, 1968. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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