Highly recommended. If you notice a problem with the translation, please send a message to [emailprotected] and include a link to the page and details about the problem. Another sad loss for the Elvis world, God Bless you Lamar. It is necessary to utterly destroy the individuals claim on our attention by leading the reader to feel in every way superior to him; to sever the individual from the social context that might make sense of his work or allow the reader to feel kinship with him; to bury what might remain of that social context in bigotry and stereotyping; to selectively omit important parts of the story being told, and to falsify others; and to surround the enterprise as a whole with calumniesand lies. Larry L Fike 1934 - 2003. cemeteries found in Mart, McLennan County, Texas, USA will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Elvis played over a thousand concerts in the last 7 years of his life, while Lamar did what exactly? Resend Activation Email. Skip to content Try again later. It was Fike, too, who had introduced Presley to a girl called Anita Wood, whom the singer dated for five years until 1958 and who Elvis's mother hoped would be her daughter-in-law. Great story teller, probably the best of the bunch. All of the friends and family members find the untimely death to be an unfortunate occurrence. Learn about how to make the most of a memorial. Regarding the issue of people not being given access to Elvis at times, it is possible that Elvis knew of this and was part of the game. Published by The Times-Picayune on Feb. 18, 2011. In order to destroy Elvis Presley as an American original, who might tell us something worth knowing about America, Goldman moves to destroy Elvis as an American (The Presleys were not an ordinary family: they were hillbillies), as a person (Elvis was a pervert, we are told, because, Goldman reports, he was fixated on the vision of black pubic hairs protruding around the edges of white pantiesa pervert, presumably, like James Joyce, who was fixated on the vision of white panties with little brown spots on their rear sides), and as an artist. Update On Lamar Fike's Death. He was 75. I said, 'I hope you do, otherwise they'll ship us home in a goddam cage!'". People are curious as to the cause of the end of Ben Fike after learning the details of his passing. January 21 2011 , a Sad Sad Day. He worked with blacks day in and day out, and in the fifties, in Memphis, he was ostracized for it: Hey Sam, he heard, you smell okay todaymust not have been with those niggers! Sam Phillips ran the only permanent recording facility in Memphis, and he had opened it solely to record black musicians. Elvis Presley on Beale Street when he first started out was a favorite man. You know my name, But not my story. You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. He had something in between that made the blues sort of different Always he had that certain humanness about him that Negroes like to put in their songs. Elvis: Truth, Myth & Beyond: An Intimate Conversation With Lamar Fike, Elvis' Closest Friend & Confidant (1) Paperback - Illustrated, September 30, 2016 by L.E. What on earth does EPE have to do with Elvis' friends and why should they even care? Add friend Advertisement "She got upset at Elvis for not paying attention to her so she opened the window and sat on the ledge. Elvis Birthday Elvis Born January 8, 1935. In later years, Lamar Fike returned to Nashville to work as an assistant to record producer and . King, Bobby Blue Bland, Elvis Presley, Clyde McPhatter, and Jackie Wilson, as a mediocre bluesman. One can pause and say that Goldman has done useful work elaborating the truth about Colonel Parker (though he is not the first to reveal that Parker is a Dutchman rather than the West Virginia carny Parker has always made himself out to be), and about Parkers long-term mismanagement of Elviss career; one can say that the opening chapters of the book, set late in Elviss career behind the walls of Graceland and inside the Hilton International Hotel in Las Vegas, while clearly composites, are effectively creepy. It is never good to speak ill of the dead. The real myths a reader confronts in Goldmans book are those of his invention. Goldman wastes little space on the problem: all one has to do to test that idea is to imagine how Gladys would react to such a pastime. Lamar stayed a close friend of Elvis throughout the years, often providing the humour that helped Elvis and the gang get through the tough days. It doesnt tell what happened to them, but it lists some info & their nicknames. Re: The Memphis Mafia - What Happened to Them ? An email has been sent to the person who requested the photo informing them that you have fulfilled their request, There is an open photo request for this memorial. End of. In 1934, in the year that Larry L Fike was born, on June 6th, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was formed as a response to the stock market crash of 1929 and the continuing Great . She saw it coming. It's a business, enterprise for goodness sakes. By far the worst of these concerns Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Records, and the man who first recorded Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Charlie Rich, and Johnny Cash, and who made the first important records with Howlin Wolf and many other blues singers. For some people (3) controlling their eating is the only way that they can feel in control of their lives generally. Elvis had noone around him he didn't want around so he obviously wanted Lamar around along with the rest of them.you are the people that take Lisa and Priscilla's word on everything, you have all forgotten that he divorced her and that Lisa was only nine when her father died, all she really knows about his business is what she has been told. When it comes to the unrehearsed, small-combo rockabilly blues of the 1968 comeback TV specialcertainly the most mature and passionate music Elvis ever made, and very likely the best music he ever madeGoldman writes it off as not even worth consideration as a document, reserving his praise instead for the shlocky Broadway arrangements that made the rest of the show so conventional. Lamar was on the road with Elvis also. Thus we have the myth behind the truth behind the legend. Elvis bought Lamar Fike a number of cars and when drafted in 1958 Lamar Fike tried to enlist but was turned down because of his weight problem. More recently, Fike himself published Elvis and the Memphis Mafia (2005) and, helped by the writer Mark Bego, his own memoirs of life with Elvis, titled An Uncommon Journey (2008). Lamar Fike in hospital: Lamar Fike, member of the Memphis Mafia was hospitalised last year in October for lymphoma. Lamar Fike was an intriguing member of Elvis' Memphis Mafia, and he is notable for several reasons. (Though Goldman claims to have based his book on more than six hundred interviews, neither he nor his researchers ever spoke to either Keisker or Phillips.) I don't know it this it is a figure of speech, but I wouldn't say Red West was a "Judas" to Elvis. He was 66. This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. I wonder what would have happened had Elvis lived instead. Colonel Parker or Elvis? This way, he can remain the nice guy while I am the nasty one! Additional information is listed below: 11:00 AM in "The Chapel Room", an Indoor Service will be held for Lamar Reilly Fike. "At times very difficult, but most of the time he was a lot of fun," Fike told him. Fike was 75 years old. Postby Colin B Fri Nov 23, 2018 11:39 am, Postby Colin B Fri Nov 23, 2018 2:51 pm, Postby Colin B Fri Nov 23, 2018 3:55 pm, Postby Colin B Fri Nov 23, 2018 4:26 pm, Postby Suspicious Minds Fri Nov 23, 2018 4:57 pm, Postby elvis-fan Fri Nov 23, 2018 5:39 pm, Postby Jukebox Sat Nov 24, 2018 3:56 am, Postby elvislady Sat Nov 24, 2018 7:59 am, Postby Colin B Sat Nov 24, 2018 8:33 am, Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 6 guests. the rest of the entourage have no such motive as Elvis was long gone before they started putting pen to paper. Who would have guessed that Lamar would outlive Elvis by so long..Goldman book a hatchet job yes but very readable especially the first two chapters and the one on the Vegas revival. Lamar Fike also worked for Hill and Range music publishers and brought several major songs to Elvis' sessions . An exile from the real world, Elvis Presley built his own world, and within itwhere the promise was that every fear, pain, doubt, and wish could be washed away with money, sex, drugs, and the bought approval of yes-menElvis Presley rotted. Elvis Presley Grave Who is Buried at Graceland? THE MYTH BEHIND THE TRUTH BEHIND THE LEGEND Cleveland, Bolivar County, Mississippi, USA. Gurlanicks Elvis biographies have completely supplanted Goldmans travesty, thanks in part to the ground-clearing performed by this essay. He was born in Cleveland,Mississippi on November 11,1935. And there are a couple troubling situations where some, in the Elvis's entourage, were the ears and the eyes of Colonel Parker. MIMIC What is at stake is this: any book that means to separate a people from the sources of its history and its identity, that means to make the past meaningless and the present incomprehensible, is destructive of that peoples ability to know itself as a people, to determine the things it might do as a people, and to discover how and why those things might be done. Ironically, he died of just what the book what talking about : a colossal abuse of long over prescribed pills. To add a flower, click the Leave a Flower button. Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. Please try again later. But it's very, very hard to get at a balanced view not least because we weren't there and are left trying to arrive at informed conclusions based on inconsistent information. One Goldman phone call, to the man who has headed the Presleys Tupelo, Mississippi, church since 1944, confirms that services there were invariably reserved and genteel. Tupelo's Own Elvis Presley DVD Video with Sound. Elvis nickname for Lamar Fike was Buddha and first met Elvis by just hanging out in front of Elvis Audubon Drive home until finally invited by Elvis mother Gladys. Year should not be greater than current year. brilliance of Greil Marcus and Peter Guralnick, whose definitive two-part biographies on Elvis are the Lamar was also very close to Elvis mother. Betrayal of a best friend. There are no volunteers for this cemetery. In her youth, Nora lit up the New York City night scene as a Copacabana girl, a famed chorus line dancer with elegant costumes. I always liked Lamar and enjoyed hearing his stories about Elvis. As we can see the departure of one of these guys always brings back controversial and dark chapters in the Elvis's biography. "He had a terrible temper. However, I believe that the stuff which is being trotted out on this site grossly underestimates the amount of hard work Elvis did. According to Fike and Wood, however, Elvis's manager, Tom Parker, "the Colonel", who preferred to keep his client as the world's most eligible bachelor, managed to edge Wood out of Elvis's life. Dr Nick? Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? [3] Elvis, he wasnt doing nothing but what the colored people had been doing for the last hundred years. . NIGGER Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. He wasnt willing to keep to his place, and now he is being returned to it. The statement is simple and elegant. Apparently he died of heart failure at Graceland, a victim of prescription drugs, fatigue, and the burdens of . Lamar Fike wishes to be cremated will be carried out and the Brown, Owen, Brumley Funeral Home, Ft.Worth are handling his funeral. Granted he didnt do the shows but he made the tours while in terrible physical condition. Marty Lacker says about Lamar: "I have the unfortunate task of officially sadly announcing the passing of Lamar Fike as authorized by his cousin Tommy McDonald who was very close to Lamar and was with him daily in his hospital room in Arlington,Texas. Lamar first met Elvis in 1954 and began working for him in 1957. SHULI announced: "What a kind, funny, and sweet human being. He got fired for that. Fike recalled the 19-year-old Wood's first date with Elvis, when she had to share the singer's limo with Fike and two other members of the Memphis Mafia, stopping off to buy "dozens of hamburgers" before going to Presley's newly-bought Memphis Mansion, Graceland, where he showed her what she called "the biggest bed I have ever seen." Family members linked to this person will appear here. Hang on a second. He continued in this capacity until 1972.He brought Presley such songs as "Kentucky Rain," "Indescribably Blue" and "It Hurts Me. Because his book will be the most widely read and widely consulted biography of Elvis Presley, his perversion of Sam Phillipss statement will replace the statement itself: it will be quoted in reviews, articles, among fans, and in other books, and it will defame the reputation of Sam Phillips. When he asks poignantly, "How do you save a man from himself? His friends and family were reliant on him because they had joint roles as employees. Never before have we seen an Elvis Presley concert from the 1950's with sound. Mutual friends say it was more to protect Presley than to make money from him that Fike volunteered for the US army when the singer was called up in 1958. Apart from alan fortas, They all lived too be a good age. One of Fike's most revealing interviews was with the presenter Larry King, who asked him what Elvis was like to work with. That's why you will read negative things about the majority of the entourage, and based on what has been written about Elvis by these people, that criticism is entirely justified. For such a task, revelations about the moral weakness and ill-spent life of a single individual are useful, but no matter how numerous or squalid such revelations might be, they are not sufficient. To make a rejection of Elviss music credible, though, Goldman must discredit both the response that greeted it (easily done: broad, coarse effects appropriate to all the broad, coarse sensibilities in his audience [rock] was little more than a gag reflex regurgitating the high school enthusiasms of the Swing Age) and the possibility that it had authentic roots. He continued to sing scores of mediocre songs for the sole reason that the publishing deals were attractive. Well put, gents. Lamar had a history of health problems. You people that are bad mouthing all these guys that were close to Elvis really need to be ashamed of yourselves. In 1963, Mr. Fike moved to Nashville to run the Hill and Range Publishing office. Welcome To Elvis Presley's World 44.6K subscribers Subscribe 12K views 1 year ago There is someone is going around saying they r. I have been friends with an English singer from the sixties who still performs. The promised scandal is there in plenty, and because of the saintliness in which Elvis was wrapped throughout his lifetime, it still has punch. Fike, who was . I read her Goldmans version of Phillipss statement. He may have been unknowing in 1955 but he was experienced enough to know the rules by 1965. Lamar passed away very peacefully, Friday, January 21. He will then say that he is sorry that he cannot spend more time with them! The moment you can do just what you like, there is nothing you care about doing. The real significance of Goldmans Elvis is in its attempt at cultural genocide. McCullough and Harold F. Eggers, Jr. discussing his 23 years association and friendship with Elvis. After Red West, he was the longest tenured of the Memphis Mafia members.He remained by Presley's side during the star's Army service in Germany. Please reset your password. It has now been over a week since the passing of one of Elvis' oldest friends. Learn more about merges. But certain Americansand of course people from all over the worldhave recognized themselves, and selves they would not have otherwise known, in Elvis Presley: Americans whose culture had taken shape long before Elvis Presley appeared, and those whose culture would have had no shape, would have been in no way theirs, had Elvis Presley been willing to keep to the place allotted to him. But it broke a taboo: Elvis had big personnal problems " Something was rotten in the kingdom of Denmark". Last October he was taken to the hospital with breathing difficulties. was a 555-page attempt to prove that Albert Goldman was hipper than Lenny Bruce. He worked for the King from 1957 to 1977 and even traveled to Germany with him in 1958. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Lamar Fike (64537204)? based on information from your browser. I feel EPE should send a belated check of 50-thousand dollars to the other who have vanished last year.that's "loyalty" and appreciation in my book. Who knows maybe some of them were paid for that. August the 13th 1958. I deal with all sorts of issues, from problems that arise during the concerts, merchanding and keeping his fans away from him. He described Elviss performances on those occasions to McKee and Chisnell: We had a lot of fun with him. Also, it's contentious to say Elvis's entourage only tried to rescue him (ie, by writing "Elvis: What Happened?" Don't judge me. The fascination, Linda Ray Pratt has written of Elvis, was the reality showing through the illusionthe illusion of wealth and the psyche of poverty; the illusion of success and the pinchof ridicule; the illusion of invincibility and the tragedy of frailty; the illusion of complete control and the reality of inner chaos Elvis had all the freedom the world can offer and could escape nothing. It is that pinch of ridiculethe ridicule in which a great part of America has always held Elvis Presleythat is the exploitative basis of Goldmans book. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. You have no clue what when on between Elvis and any of those guys, what their feelings were or what Elvis' were. It reduces him to a voiceless child when it seems to me he was a highly influential, successful adult at the top of his profession. May God Bless his Soul and may he Rest In Peace. Had the responsible adult Elvis Presley been angry that Hollywood didn't work out for him, he could have reviewed his arrangements with Tom Parker and made a career decision to concentrate primarily on singing and not on movies. The term stuck and was generally used, including by Elvis and themselves, with considerable irony. I was always upset by the fact that Steve Binder was blocked to meet Elvis in Vegas. Did it contribute? Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. Lamar had been hospitalized since last October 14th and then transferred to the physical therapy wing of the hospital. You want to bad mouth these people for what they have said in their books, why don't you look in your mirrors, these people you are writing about, when you have no clue what you are talking about have families too. Who betrayed the other there? One could detail the homophobic, ethnic, and racist slurs, the exaggerations, and the undocumentable assertions and conversations that mar even these sections of the book. They should have had the balls to say what they said in their many books to Elvis's face. "He had a terrible temper. Elvis has been dead 18 years now, but to hear these guys tell it, he's still hanging around, trying to take everybody with him. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Thanks for your help! At the end of January, something like nine weeks after they met, Elvis gave her an eleven-and-a-half-karat diamond ring. + Plus Bonus DVD Audio. I really think it's disrespectful and a bit twee to cast him as a naive, pitiable little boy incapable of making choices. Lamar's wishes to be cremated will be carried out and the Brown, Owen, Brumley Funeral Home, Ft. Worth are handling his funeral. A memorial service will be held in Mart, Texas, one of Lamar's boyhood homes at a date to be announced.Lamar was 75, hewas born in Cleveland, Mississippi on November 11, 1935. The Memphis Mafia - What Happened to Them ? Use Escape keyboard button or the Close button to close the carousel. "I don't think that there's any doubt he killed that woman," said Lamar Fike, a member of Elvis Presley's Memphis Mafia. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. There is 1 volunteer for this cemetery. Close this window, and upload the photo(s) again. I will give you a little example of a similar experience I have had. Dec. 15, 2006. I have little stomach for any more: for an accounting of Goldmans countless factual errors (Hank Williamss death dated in the wrong year; James Meredith, who has surely suffered enough, being killed in 1969 at Altamont rather than Meredith Hunter), misspelled names, songs placed in the wrong movies, or the dismissal of James Brown as an African witch doctor and of Roy Brown, the voice behind B. It's hard to beleive Elvis would have employed him for that length of time, if he didn't trust and love him as a friend. First, the minister in question arrived in Tupelo when Elvis was nine, and says nothing about services during Elviss formative years. Asked why Elvis did not marry Wood, Fike, though never a great fan of Tom Parker, said simply: "the Atlantic Ocean" a reference to Elvis's service in Germany. What's with all these silly health comparisons? Lamar Fike was born in 1935 in Cleveland, Mississippi, by the side of Route 61, which runs north-south through the entire country, including past the Duluth birthplace of Bob Dylan, who preferred to call it Highway 61. But when Elvis gave a woman a ring, it didn't mean a damn thing." As for Lamar, maybe you're right, I wouldn't know, but certainly, I wouldn't compare him to Red West. There is first of all dope, Herculean quantities of it; then sex, orgies, and homemade pornographic videos piled uponfetishes, phobias, and neurotic dysfunction; then violence, a much thinner theme, but including accounts of cruelty, gunfever, and gunplay; then fat, then wasteall of it testimony to a schizophrenia as out of control as it was cossetted. Or, as Fike put it, "his buffer zone.". On the contrary, he was one of the most honest of his entourage and almost the only one who confronted Elvis on his drug addiction. Fike was born in Cleveland, Miss., on Nov. 11, 1935. What? Your Scrapbook is currently empty. . The DVD Contains recently discovered unreleased film of Elvis performing 6 songs, including Heartbreak Hotel and Don't Be Cruel, live in Tupelo Mississippi 1956. But I've read that he let people go because cutting back on their salaries had become a matter of essential financial austerity. Fike began working for him for no pay Elvis preferred to tip his entourage with flash cars or houses for their parents. So when he had a show down there at the Palace, everybody got ready for something good. Fike remained one of his closest aides until the singer's death in 1977. Ultimately they were all as bad as one another, none of them being of any real benefit to Elvis. Myth, Goldman writes, is what we believe naturally. Agent Kevin Eggers brought Fike together with Albert Goldman, a fifty-four-year-old pop critic and former college professor. Yeah. Death location . Not a single detail has been confirmed, clarifying Marfan Mike's cause of death. He jeopardised the security and happiness of them all by lapsing into drug abuse. Fike was the co-author of the 2005 book Elvis and the Memphis Mafia. Lamar Fike was one of Elvis Presley's career-long entourage who became the singer's friends, foils, scapegoats, bodyguards, road managers, lighting technicians, punchbags, babysitters (for the . Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile, Lamar Fike was one of Elvis Presley's career-long entourage who became the singer's friends, foils, scapegoats, bodyguards, road managers, lighting technicians, punchbags, babysitters (for the singer himself) and procurers of girls, pills or sweets. Being around a drug addict for years is Hell. Even the books errors, its disregard for the most easily confirmed facts, its degraded style, and its refusal of documentation or, most of the time, even attribution, is part of this: it emphasizes that a figure such as Elvis Presley does not deserve a serious biography. In the immortal words of Alice from the old Honeymooners TV show, Blimp Takes Off. I don't contend that Elvis's entourage are angelic. This interview was conducted in 2005 Introduction by Lamar Fike: I was born in Mississippi in 1935 and moved to Memphis in 1957. Search above to list available cemeteries. A memorial service will be held in Mart, Texas, one of Lamar's boyhood homes at a date to be announced. To Goldman, Elvis was simply an inspired mimic: he learned what he knew off the radio. Such information is missing in Goldmans book not because it is dubious, but because it conflicts with Goldmans portrait of Elvis as an unregenerate Southern redneck who stopped just short of the Klan.. . He will meet fans after the show to sign autographs but he does not want to stand there chatting to them for hours on end. I'm so sorry to hear this. There was a problem getting your location. Drag images here or select from your computer for Lamar Reilly Buddha, Birdy Fike memorial. It is hard to know where to begin: the torrents of hate that drive this book are unrelieved. So on the one hand you accuse other posts of talking as if Elvis was an angel, but you act the same way towards the memphis mafia! The crowd responded to them. The 'parade' footage is good to see as it puts you in the right context with color and b&w footage. The "lure", according to Fike, worked next time around and Elvis and Wood became lovers. There is no need to feel revolted: American culture has never permitted itself to be exemplified by Elvis Presley, and it never will. As for Lamar. Probably so, but it was the lifestyle of Elvis that killed him at such a young age. Add photo. Rest in peace Lamar and look after Elvis for us. In 1957 already, Lamar jumped the Graceland walls to stay with Elvis.all of his life !! A Private "Celebration/Wake" for Lamar Reilly Fike for family and friends will be held after the service.Source: Marty LackerChildren: 1)James Fike2)Joan Fike3)John Fike, Thank you for fulfilling this photo request. Martin J. Marty Lacker peacefully passed Monday, February 13, 2017 of natural causes. History is what we must painfully learn and struggle to remember. Within this remarkably philistine formulation, Goldman makes much of his puncturing of Myths (his capitalization), all of which were punctured long ago, which exist to be punctured because Goldman has labored to inflate them, or which are punctured only by fiat and mystification. Marion Keiske Who Discovered Elvis Presley? Lamarr had lived in the Orlando area for the past decade, in Altamonte. I think that would have contributed to his health, and the shows would surely be more exciting. Fike spent much of his boyhood in the small town of Mart, Texas, close to Waco, before his family moved, as Elvis's did, to Memphis, Tennessee, to seek work when he was a teenager. I went to Columbia Military Academy and gradusted in 1954. How else to explain Goldmans bizarre aside that because Elvis was uncircumcised, he saw his beauty disfigured by an ugly hillbilly pecker, unless one assumes Goldman is inordinately proud of his own lack of a foreskin, and wants everyone to know about it?
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