Elvis Presley: Upstairs of Graceland ‘like he just left’ says expert
Elvis Presley lived at Graceland with his inner circle known as the Memphis Mafia. And while The King died in 1977, many of his close friends and family are still alive and love to share stories of great times with the star. One of them is cousin Billy Smith and his son Danny, who runs the Memphis Mafia Kid YouTube channel.
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Danny was just a teenager when Elvis died, but has many warm memories of times at Graceland with The King.
Speaking at the end of Elvis Week, the Memphis Mafia Kid went through some fan questions, including whether or not The King was happy with his life.
After all, on one level Elvis was rich and famous with an incredible music career and close circle of friends and family living around him.
But on the other, he also saw hard times as he went through career doubts, his divorce from wife Priscilla Presley, while also becoming very unhealthy and addicted to prescription drugs before dying of a heart attack at the age of just 42-years-old.
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Elvis Presley: What truly made The King HAPPY shared by cousin who grew up at Graceland (Image: GETTY)
Elvis with the Memphis Mafia – Billy Smith (Danny's dad) is on the far left (Image: GETTY)
Elvis’ second cousin Danny said overall: “I think Elvis was very happy with his life.
“This is just what I feel and what I think, so I’m just going to give you that.
“He loved being Elvis Presley but he also was a man.
“And I think that’s what a lot of us tend to forget over the years. He had feelings.”
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Elvis lived at Graceland for two decades (Image: GETTY)
And it turns out Elvis took real joy in sharing his great wealth with friends and family.
Danny continued: “He could pretty much have anything he wanted; do anything he wanted.
“So he got happiness and thrill out of giving to others, as we’ve talked about many times.
“Anybody that was in the Elvis group, Elvis got a kick and loved [giving to them].”
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The Memphis Mafia Kid added: “It made him so happy; gave him a thrill to give somebody a new car or give somebody a truck or buy somebody a house.
“As far as living and loving life, Elvis Presley lived it and loved it.
“And like I’ve always said, I thank God that I was apart of that.
“And that’s a part of me that will never ever go away.”
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After Elvis’ death, Graceland became the property of his daughter Lisa Maria Presley.
While in 1982, the Memphis mansion was opened to the public as a museum.
However, the upstairs area where The King died is off-limits.
Yet, Lisa Marie requires the rooms, including Elvis’ bedroom, to be perfectly persevered just as he left them.