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July 01, 1973

Elvis performed at the Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee at 3.00 and 8.30 p.m.

Song of the day

Way Down

"Way Down" brings back very mixed feelings for me. When the single was first released I got a bus to the original Virgin Megastore at Marble Arch and bought it. I had not heard it, so the journey home was frustratingly long. When I got home, I played the single several times and loved it straight away. In the UK at the time, Elvis was a bit of a sad figure, ridiculed in the press because of his increasing weight and strange behaviour at times. Extracts from "Elvis, What Happened?" had recently been printed in a newspaper, which scratched away at the golden boy image that we had always been fed. Hearing "Way Down" gave me a great deal of optimism for the future, it reassured me that Elvis was still the greatest. Little did we know the sad event that was looming.

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