Famously en Famously is a podcast about the wild lives of famous rogues, rockstars and wrong'uns. We're in the gutter, looking up at the stars. https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/1dafe104-c97c-11f1-b0cb-5b94ca50c7e7/image/e49af7005d3d861da657571132b8090a.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress Famously yes episodic The Upshot Famously is a podcast about the wild lives of famous rogues, rockstars and wrong'uns. We're in the gutter, looking up at the stars. Famously is a podcast about the wild lives of famous rogues, rockstars and wrong'uns. We're in the gutter, looking up at the stars.

]]> The Upshot contact@upshot.email Elvis: guns, drugs and 8,000 calorie sandwiches (part 2) It’s 1960 and Elvis is a superstar sex symbol. Women want him, men want to be him. He’s a national icon. But in the space of 16 years, Elvis will become a washed up laughing stock, stage the greatest comeback of all time, and come crashing back to earth, ending up dead on the toilet at 42. Links from the show: One Boy, Two Little Girls - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl2n0Eibfgk Elvis curing autism - https://i2.wp.com/chicagoreader.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/change_of_habit.jpg?fit=1020%2C823&ssl=1 Wedding - https://wwd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GettyImages-76884365.jpg?w=1024 Lisa Marie birth - https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/21/8d/a4/218da41751d79199f659088c47290d62.jpg Letter to Nixon - https://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/elvis-letter-to-nixon Elvis and Nixon - https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/8hAAAOSwqu9VPUVh/s-l1600.webp Divorce - https://www.instagram.com/p/C2gCa17PMLH/ Traffic cop - http://www.metnews.com/articles/2015/perspectives101315_files/image001.jpg Coffin - https://www.remindmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/National-Enquirer-cover-with-Elvis-in-coffin_1977-1104x1536.jpg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Mon, 02 Nov 2026 06:01:00 -0000 full The Upshot It’s 1960 and Elvis is a superstar sex symbol. Women want him, men want to be him. He’s a national icon. But in the space of 16 years, Elvis will become a washed up laughing stock, stage the greatest comeback of all time, and come crashing back to earth, ending up dead on the toilet at 42. Links from the show: One Boy, Two Little Girls - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl2n0Eibfgk Elvis curing autism - https://i2.wp.com/chicagoreader.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/change_of_habit.jpg?fit=1020%2C823&ssl=1 Wedding - https://wwd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GettyImages-76884365.jpg?w=1024 Lisa Marie birth - https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/21/8d/a4/218da41751d79199f659088c47290d62.jpg Letter to Nixon - https://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/elvis-letter-to-nixon Elvis and Nixon - https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/8hAAAOSwqu9VPUVh/s-l1600.webp Divorce - https://www.instagram.com/p/C2gCa17PMLH/ Traffic cop - http://www.metnews.com/articles/2015/perspectives101315_files/image001.jpg Coffin - https://www.remindmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/National-Enquirer-cover-with-Elvis-in-coffin_1977-1104x1536.jpg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices It’s 1960 and Elvis is a superstar sex symbol. Women want him, men want to be him. He’s a national icon.

But in the space of 16 years, Elvis will become a washed up laughing stock, stage the greatest comeback of all time, and come crashing back to earth, ending up dead on the toilet at 42.

Links from the show:

One Boy, Two Little Girls - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl2n0Eibfgk

Elvis curing autism - https://i2.wp.com/chicagoreader.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/change_of_habit.jpg?fit=1020%2C823&ssl=1

Wedding - https://wwd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GettyImages-76884365.jpg?w=1024

Lisa Marie birth - https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/21/8d/a4/218da41751d79199f659088c47290d62.jpg

Letter to Nixon - https://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/elvis-letter-to-nixon

Elvis and Nixon - https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/8hAAAOSwqu9VPUVh/s-l1600.webp

Divorce - https://www.instagram.com/p/C2gCa17PMLH/

Traffic cop - http://www.metnews.com/articles/2015/perspectives101315_files/image001.jpg

Coffin - https://www.remindmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/National-Enquirer-cover-with-Elvis-in-coffin_1977-1104x1536.jpg

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]]> 2681 Elvis: they threw rotten fruit at him (part 1) He was the most famous rockstar of the 20th century. So how did Elvis end up an obese wreck, dead on the toilet at 42, surrounded by sex books and prescription pills? We're charting the first half of his life - as he turns from a Mississippi mamas boy into an amphetamine-addled music star with a teenage girlfriend. Links from the show: Elvis as a child - https://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/sites/default/files/imported-images/68.gif That's Alright - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCP_g7X31nI Elvis t-shirt - https://www.instagram.com/p/DUTzUUUEpIq/ Elvis and Anita - https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRM_Ty0VEwZrr4QmrlPv0N3AfZ7EOm84RRV7y4L2KAkzyzPZfvis0FcowY&s=10 Hair cut - https://images.imagerenderer.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/elvis-presley-receives-an-army-crew-cut-bettmann.jpg Priscilla waving goodbye - https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/rockcms/2022-06/priscilla-presley-fashion-young-bn-220627-3a2e78.jpg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Mon, 02 Nov 2026 06:00:00 -0000 full The Upshot He was the most famous rockstar of the 20th century. So how did Elvis end up an obese wreck, dead on the toilet at 42, surrounded by sex books and prescription pills? We're charting the first half of his life - as he turns from a Mississippi mamas boy into an amphetamine-addled music star with a teenage girlfriend. Links from the show: Elvis as a child - https://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/sites/default/files/imported-images/68.gif That's Alright - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCP_g7X31nI Elvis t-shirt - https://www.instagram.com/p/DUTzUUUEpIq/ Elvis and Anita - https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRM_Ty0VEwZrr4QmrlPv0N3AfZ7EOm84RRV7y4L2KAkzyzPZfvis0FcowY&s=10 Hair cut - https://images.imagerenderer.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/elvis-presley-receives-an-army-crew-cut-bettmann.jpg Priscilla waving goodbye - https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/rockcms/2022-06/priscilla-presley-fashion-young-bn-220627-3a2e78.jpg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices He was the most famous rockstar of the 20th century.

So how did Elvis end up an obese wreck, dead on the toilet at 42, surrounded by sex books and prescription pills?

We're charting the first half of his life - as he turns from a Mississippi mamas boy into an amphetamine-addled music star with a teenage girlfriend.

Links from the show:

Elvis as a child - https://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/sites/default/files/imported-images/68.gif

That's Alright - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCP_g7X31nI

Elvis t-shirt - https://www.instagram.com/p/DUTzUUUEpIq/

Elvis and Anita - https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRM_Ty0VEwZrr4QmrlPv0N3AfZ7EOm84RRV7y4L2KAkzyzPZfvis0FcowY&s=10

Hair cut - https://images.imagerenderer.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/elvis-presley-receives-an-army-crew-cut-bettmann.jpg

Priscilla waving goodbye - https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/rockcms/2022-06/priscilla-presley-fashion-young-bn-220627-3a2e78.jpg

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]]> 2702 We're in the gutter, looking up at the stars Famously is a podcast about the wild lives of famous rogues, rockstars and wrong'uns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:27:00 -0000 trailer The Upshot Famously is a podcast about the wild lives of famous rogues, rockstars and wrong'uns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Famously is a podcast about the wild lives of famous rogues, rockstars and wrong'uns.

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