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when you heard that Elvis had died?

I can remember it clear as day. On the radio, staying in a friends caravan at Port Eynon on the Gower with my Grandparents.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:12 pm
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at the grand age of 13 months? shitting, eating or sleeping I would hazard a guess.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:13 pm
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Not an awful lot as I hadn't been born yet


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:13 pm
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I wasn't impressed by Elvis at the age of 18 months. Not much has changed on that front.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:14 pm
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Standing on a blue plastic chair in the kitchen whilst my Mum pinned up the legs of my first ever pair of school trousers which she was altering to fit


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:15 pm
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In France with mum+dad, I think in Vichy. Dad walked past a man lying on a bench with a newspaper over his face and it said "Elvis dead" in French obvs. It may have been tomorrow 40years ago though.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:16 pm
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Taught the band to play.

Or was that twenty years ago......? I forget.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:17 pm
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It was a Tuesday, I was probably at playschool so I don't recall Elvis leaving the building via the shitter.

I do however vividly remember listening to a bloke on the radio at home talking about John Lennon when he died three years later.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:18 pm
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In the car park at Boscastle. It was chunking it down. We were on a family holiday in Bude and the weather had been appalling all week.

I remember my Auntie Janet being very upset, about Elvis that is, not the weather.

We went to the witchcraft museum in the afternoon and I saw lots of photos of nekid ladies jumping over fires, so all in all the day was pretty good as far as my 8 year old self was concerned.

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I don't recall Elvis leaving the building via the shitter

You made me laugh until I coughed.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:18 pm
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Tuesday? Really?

I remember being in the car with my Dad (I was 6), and he saw the newspaper headline and told me my Mum would be sad when she found out. I assumed it was a Sunday as we'd been to the tip, but I guess he was on summer holiday....


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:23 pm
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My Dad had Elvis records, my older brother had Never Mind the Bollocks. So I was torn really. Don't remember the event, but remember thinking punks would be pleased.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:28 pm
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swimming about in my mammy's belly! 😆 i don't think i'd a fully formed opinion on the matter.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:29 pm
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On holiday at Conwy, North Wales. I was 11, my 8 yr old brother cried at the news 🙂


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:30 pm
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I was 16 and working in the school holidays at a factory in Plymouth, the ladies on the production lines were in tears & everyone was talking about it 😥

I was too young at the time to understand what Elvis meant to people & the influence his music had on them. They also played Elvis records on the radio all day long 🙁


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:30 pm
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Elvis dead!?! I need to let Joe Cocker know


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:31 pm
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being only six i wasn't a fan but i do remember the tv showing the coffin being moved and my mum saying it was a shame.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:33 pm
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Buying pie and chips off him in our local chippy.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:35 pm
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It was a Tuesday

Could have sworn it was a Thursday, anyhow's I was 13 delivering the morning papers, it was pissing down again and it was on the front page of the Daily Express.

Didn't really bother me that much tbh.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:35 pm
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staying in a caravan in Chichester with my parents and younger brother and sister.

My mum and sister were both big Elvis fans and were inconsolable.

It was also the first time I was aware of cynicism as my best friend who was a year older than me described it as a 'career move'.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:36 pm
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Probably eating mud in the back garden and getting washed in the kitchen sink, or whatever is what we did in the 70's, i was 22 months old....


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:41 pm
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MTB-Idle - Member
described it as a 'career move'.
😆


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:42 pm
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Can't remember. Might've been on hols with my family, last year I did this.

I do remember though thinking he was pretty old and had had a good innings.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:43 pm
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I was doing whatever it is that happens 6 weeks before being born...


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:44 pm
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We were living in South Africa and had been for a year - the news didn't reach us for some time!


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:44 pm
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I always remember the date. It was my 9th birthday!


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:45 pm
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Happy birthday mr Grim!

I was waiting for my A-level results but can't remember precisely what I was doing that day, possibly helping out on the farm. Will have heard the news on the 6 o'clock news - no interweb back then of course.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:49 pm
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Lying in hospital in a coma having fallen 20 feet onto concrete. At 4 years old and in that state I wasn't really bothered about Elvis.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:51 pm
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Sat in a bedsit with my mum..
She cried all day


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:51 pm
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stood in front of the headmasters office, waiting to get the cane.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:51 pm
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**** knows I was 2 and didn't know some fat American died in a shitting accident


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:52 pm
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I was probably doing something lego related

Happy birthday grim!


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:52 pm
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My mum was crying I remember that clearly as the news was on TV, loads of people queuing around gracelands


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:58 pm
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My mum told me when I woke up. I wasn't bothered. Later that day I did my Cycling Proficiency training and the young lady training us was very upset.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 12:58 pm
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Too young to care or remember. I did remember having a discussion about him a few years later and learning that he was dead.

I do just about remember John Lennon being shot though and my mum being quite reasonably upset.

Lennon > Elvis in our house.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 1:02 pm
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My eyes and ears would have just about started functioning in the womb, so I suppose my cortex would have been too preoccupied with processing all those new nerve impulses to be bothered much about Elvis.

This thread is very heartening, I might be nearly 40, but I'm not so ancient that I can actually recall any of the 70s, you guys are [i]old[/i]... 😉


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 1:04 pm
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70s news items I remember :

Thatcher being elected


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 1:06 pm
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This thread is very heartening, I might be nearly 40, but I'm not so ancient that I can actually recall any of the 70s, you guys are old...

Yeah - I was always getting my bell bottom jeans caught in the chain of my Raleigh Tomahawk 😀


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 1:07 pm
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I'm not sure my parents had even met.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 1:08 pm
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my step dad had sent off to the shop to buy his newspaper as he always did so I saw it in the headlines that morning. I was only 8 so didn't really care too much - I expect I probably spent the rest of the day either riding my bike, kicking a football around or playing Top Trumps with friends 🙂


 
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As an 11 year old, it registered but no vivid recollection of what I was doing when I heard, Boycott's 100th 100, which happened a few days earlier, was far more important to me.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 1:12 pm
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Camping with friends 3 miles from the road beside Loch Lomond. Three girls we had met the day before walked up from Rowerdennan and told us the news. No big deal really. Past it American singer dies.

I was more shocked on October 20th that year when Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane crashed. I listened to their music, not Elvis.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 1:13 pm
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You lot are old.

I'm not sure i can think of any musicians deaths that affected me.

Johnny Cash? And by then was at college!


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 1:17 pm
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Wait until Joe Cocker dies we'll all remember that day.


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 1:18 pm
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My mum was crying I remember that clearly as the news was on TV, loads of people queuing around gracelands


 
Posted : 16/08/2017 1:19 pm
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I was doing pretty much what I'm doing now - I'm by the beach.
The only differences are that today I'm working and we have a different house to back then - I'm now 400m away but can almost see the old house from where I'm sat.


 
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