The worst ever onstage banter
It's one of the most distressing clips in music: At a gig in Rapid City in 1977, just six weeks before his death, a drug-addled Elvis Presley loses his thread during 'Are You Lonesome Tonight', trailing off into tragic gibberish: "And now the stage is bare, and I'm standing there, without any hair… huh, huh… ah, the heck with it." Photo: PA Photos
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