I will not let anybody get backstage other than a close showbiz friend of his or a member of his family. ", he sounds almost broken. Sorry Jamie but I haven't heard such a load of "glass half empty" rubbish since the heady days of Goldman. Lamar Fike, assistant to Elvis Presley: born Cleveland, Mississippi 11 November 1935; died Arlington, Texas 21 January 2011. 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. Elvis Presley's songs are unforgettable - they have stood the test of time, especially his singles of the 1950s, a decade in which he had a song at No. The Stanley brothers is another example. Sam Phillips denies making the statement, believing (according to Keisker), that it implies he was only interested in money, when his ambition was equally to bring the two races and their music together. Its very sad. was intended to aid Elvis rather than a tawdry attempt to gain revenge with royalties added - who's naive? Drag images here or select from your computer for Lamar Reilly Buddha, Birdy Fike memorial. It didn't seem to affect him. Lamar Fike passed away. Again, you may be right. But the most authentic 5 seconds of interview I have ever seen with one of the Presley camp is in "This is Elvis". There are no volunteers for this cemetery. I understand Elvis liked and trusted him very much. To Goldman, Elvis was simply an inspired mimic: he learned what he knew off the radio. He was 66. This is the way he wants it, but the fans have no idea of this, they think it is all my doing. More and More of the "Elvis World" is leaving Us. Is it possible that the rot, the schizophrenia, that took over Elvis was in some way bound up in the fact that as a working-class hero who (no matter how great his fortune) never left the working class, Elvis could not integrate the worship and derision which were his fate from his twenty-first year? Welcome To The FECC Forum - More than 100 Million Visitors Can't Be Wrong!!! Lamar talks about Elvis' mother and the sad tragedy of her death. He also appeared in the documentaries The Elvis Mob (2004) and All the King's Men (1997). (LogOut/ Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. He could make it hard on you. It's a business, enterprise for goodness sakes. No animated GIFs, photos with additional graphics (borders, embellishments. Close this window, and upload the photo(s) again. The first liaison produced a line of criminals, drunkards, and morons, while the second produced only the highest types of human beings. The findings thus proved that poverty and antisocial behavior (and, conversely, wealth and good character) were entirely a matter of inheritanceof genetics. That is why Linda left. Lamar was on the road with Elvis also. 0 cemeteries found in Mart, McLennan County, Texas, USA. Lamar was also very close to Elvis' mother. I agree with what Tony and dgirl were trying to say here. REST IN PEACE, LAMAR. But I've read that he let people go because cutting back on their salaries had become a matter of essential financial austerity. He was very honest. "I don't think that there's any doubt he killed that woman," said Lamar Fike, a member of Elvis Presley's Memphis Mafia. MIMIC Previously sponsored memorials or famous memorials will not have this option. This is an excellent release no fan should be without it. Failed to report flower. Third, there are Elviss own words. 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.. You just dont do that. Lamar had been hospitalized since last October 14th and then transferred to the physical therapy wing of the hospital. Lamar Fike (1995): "Ginger didn't give a rat's ass about him. 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. They should have had the balls to say what they said in their many books to Elvis's face. Mr. Fike was the co-author of the 2005 book Elvis and the Memphis Mafia. As Goldman says, there is absolutely no poignance in this history.. 1. for 59 weeks and 4 No. Just my feelings. Martin J. Marty Lacker peacefully passed Monday, February 13, 2017 of natural causes. NIGGER Mr. Fike wished to be cremated. 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. The Memphis Mafia: Lamar Fike - died 21st January, 2011, in Arlington Tarrant County, Texas, aged 75. And as I said before Elvis never had the rehab facilities that the current crop rely on. In addition to James Fike, of Atlanta, GA. he is survived by another son, John Fike, of Nashville, Tenn. Lamar's wishes to be cremated will be carried out and the Brown, Owen, Brumley Funeral Home, Ft. Worth are handling his funeral. If he could have done two big tours a year, that would just have been perfect. The Stanley boys? He remained by Presley's side up until the star's death in 1977. Colin B, what's up with Al Strada and Larry Geller these days? Gurlanicks Elvis biographies have completely supplanted Goldmans travesty, thanks in part to the ground-clearing performed by this essay. I don't contend that Elvis's entourage are angelic. Pity Fike overlooked this basic rule of human decency regarding Elvis the majority of the "Facts" in Albert Goldman's repulsive "Elvis" book came from Fike. Gonna miss him Sincere condolences to family and friends. Billy Smith, Marty Lacker and Lamar Fike were among the earlier. Thus he offers the litany, familiar to anyone with a passing knowledge of the literature on eugenics, of violence, convulsions, drink, birth defects, and homicidal madness, untilFinally one comes to Elvis, whom we see now as possibly the victim of a fatal hereditary disposition., Whatever that meansand of course outside of Goldmans intentions it means nothing at all. http://www.elvis-history-blog.com/memph names.html. 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. HOW TO DO IT Great story teller, probably the best of the bunch. January 21 2011 , a Sad Sad Day. [3] Sam Phillips recorded Burses Shorty the Barber in 1950Burse was only the second artist to record for Phillipsbut did not release it. Marion Keiske Who Discovered Elvis Presley? 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. By no means. The Brown, Owen, Brumley Funeral Home in Fort Worth, Texas is handing the funeral arrangements. The Memphis Mafia was the nickname given by the media to a group of Elvis Presley's friends, associates, employees and cousins whose main functions were to accompany, protect, and serve Presley from the beginning of his career in 1954 until his death in 1977. Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. 1.9k. This is what she said: UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES! Additional information is listed below: 11:00 AM in "The Chapel Room", an Indoor Service will be held for Lamar Reilly Fike. MONEY When Lamar Fike, for many years a member of the Memphis Mafia, Elvis Presley's stable of paid friends and gofers, decided to sell his story, he spawned a small industry. 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. Nevernever. He had a way of singing the blues that was distinctive. I guess I learned from them. Why would Elvis lie? Skip to content If ya'll are such big Elvis fans than you should know that Elvis would not appreciate you sitting behind your computers like cowards, bad mouthing his friends that have passed away especially. Never before have we seen an Elvis Presley concert from the 1950's with sound. Lamar passed away very peacefully, Friday, January 21. last word on him. True, Elvis was not naive, but he was one of the first real multimedia superstars and therefore had little in the way of precedent (no Betty Ford clinics, modern agents, lifecoaches etc) to guide him. I do not - cannot - deny that Elvis lifestyle was not conducive to a long life. You say "You have no clue what went on between Elvis and any of those guys", well you are wrong. Outside of Red West, Lamar was with Elvis the longest and he remained close to him until Elvis' passing.Lamar was also very close to Elvis' mother. 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. Maybe there's such a residue of ill-feeling, sus[picion and unhappiness following Elvis's death because his behaviour was hugely damaging to the people around him and the relationships between them. What remains for us fan is what we should focus on: the music the Memphis Flash left to enjoy forever. The same goes for backstage meetings, he likes to sit backstage quietly alone to prepare himself for the show. Hello Viva, I don't think we do know for sure some of the key detail about what happened within the Presley camp because contradiction in fact and nuance is rife. It is one thing to take drugs, it is another thing how your body react to it. My thing was we just fought all the time. Goldman notes, for example, that it is a prime Presley Myth that Elvis took much of his style from free-wheelingPentecostal preachers. 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. Being around a drug addict for years is Hell. A system error has occurred. McCullough (Author), Harold F. Eggers (Author) 143 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle $9.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback Lamar Fike, a member of Elvis Presley's famed inner circle called the "Memphis Mafia" who had a long career in the music industry, has died. Exactly who is the victim of treachery in all this? He continued in this capacity until 1972.He brought Presley such songs as "Kentucky Rain," "Indescribably Blue" and "It Hurts Me. Im not sure. We DO know what went on because they have all documented their version of events several times over. I met this lovely man in Memphis 2003, he was a true gentleman and spoke highly of Elvis. Cause of death Unknown. When he has had enough, he will give me a certain look which is a sign for me to make up an excuse as to why we have to leave. The cause of death has not been determined, but Seminole County authorities said it was not suspicious. Outside of Red West, Lamar was with Elvis the longest and he remained close to him until Elvis' passing. These guys were put through an awful ordeal and were pushed beyond their coping many times over. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Joan Fike. And Elvis Presley was a real genius. He stuck with a bunch of tried and trusted friends, most of whom he looked after in huge examples of generosity - by your standards THEY were not naive, they could have left him and his money IF they wanted. After Elvis died, there were a number of doctors that said that they had experienced much more drugs in different bodies, where people had survived. If I could find a white boy who sang like a nigger, Goldman has Sam Phillips say, I could make a billion dollars.. I think that would have contributed to his health, and the shows would surely be more exciting. 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. In 1963, Mr. Fike moved to Nashville to run the Hill and Range Publishing office. Last October he was taken to the hospital with breathing difficulties. 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. Many commentators now accept that Elvis was worked himself to death in those last seven years - concerts, tours, even recording sessions and that he had other health problems (some of which precipitated the prescription drug use). Elvis Gold Piano Elvis Piano at Graceland. Lamar Fike passed away. Elvis Birthday Elvis Born January 8, 1935. a literary pariah in his own lifetime. Lamar passed away very peacefully, Friday, January 21. I deal with all sorts of issues, from problems that arise during the concerts, merchanding and keeping his fans away from him. Elvis Presley on Beale Street when he first started out was a favorite man. I really think it's disrespectful and a bit twee to cast him as a naive, pitiable little boy incapable of making choices. That was a great lesson to us. He got that shaking, that wiggle, from Charlie Burse, Ukulele Ike we called him, right there at the Gray Mule on Beale. I also met Elvis in '54 and began working for him in '57 although we never got paid. Never. It's a game Elvis tended to participate in and they were all very willing players. Lamar Fike wishes to be cremated will be carried out and the Brown, Owen, Brumley Funeral Home, Ft.Worth are handling his funeral. 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. As for Lamar. Thanks, Lamar. Larry L Fike . 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. Don't judge me. But because the book is having its intended impact, and because Elvis Presley is so large a figure, intertwined with the lives of millions of people in ways that have hardly begun to be examined, a good deal is at stake. Lamar Hunt, whose father's Texas oil fortune gave him the springboard to become a prime founder of the American Football League and who gave the Super Bowl its name, died . Your Scrapbook is currently empty. He got fired for that. But there is no point. 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. Now after reading this i realise Goldmans book is really just trash and was so glad to read Marion Kiesker completely repudiate Goldmans perversion of the famous line as it was a low moment for me when i read it in the book. Try again later. Did even Elvis knew Steve wanted to meet him? The group of men, and one woman, became known as "The Memphis Mafia", not least because of their black mohair suits, sunglasses at night and black limos. "When Presley began starring in Las Vegas, Mr. Fike became his lighting director. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64537204/lamar-reilly-fike. These occasions are private matters for family members to make their own arrangements. It's all nonsense. 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. Right here, you have the essence of the book. Home - Elvis Presley Photos | Elvis Presley and Friends, Copyright 2022 by www.elvis.com.au & www.elvispresley.com.au, https://www.elvis.com.au/presley/news/lamar-fike-has-died.shtml. The crowd responded to them. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Which leaves, for Goldman, one more Myth to be taken down: the Myth that Elvis spent time on Memphiss Beale Street, drawn there by the blues. Larry L Fike 1934 - 2003. If he'd wanted to meet up with Steve Binder, he could have phoned him at NBC and arranged for him to collect complimentary tickets at the International. And if you believe that "Elvis What Happened?" 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." The cause of Elvis' death on Aug. 16, 1977, remains an issue of speculation and controversy. Marty wrote: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 passed away very peacefully last night, Friday, January 21. If he'd wanted tom avoid an expensive divorce he might have refrained engaging in what Priscilla diplomatically describes as a "Batchelor's lifestyle". For an out of shape guy like Lamar to outlive him by 34 years is astounding. McCullough and Harold F. Eggers, Jr. discussing his 23 years association and friendship with Elvis. His son, James Fike, says that his father, who was . If you want to help support the channel: http://www.paypal.me/kslingoCashapp $kyleslingoVenmo @Slinky8If you like what you see please hit the subscribe butto. 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. Hang on a second. Try again. After hearing about Ben Fike's passing, many people looked up his obituary and death online. He remained by Presley's side up until the star's death in 1977. Fike always insisted that Priscilla's father cornered Elvis into marrying Priscilla. He was 75.Fike, who was suffering from non-Hodgkin's . We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. RIP, Lamar. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. after they'd been fired. It really is an impressive takedown. Elvis Australia was founded in 1996 www.elvis.com.au was literally born from the concept of wanting to represent 'Elvis in Australia', so www.elvis.com.au Read more. For a time in 1962 Fike left the Elvis inner circle to become the manager foe singer Brenda Lee only to return a few years later Lamar Fike became infamous three Memphis Mafia members when he was accredited in the Albert Goldman book ELVIS. You know my name, But not my story. You people that are bad mouthing all these guys that were close to Elvis really need to be ashamed of yourselves. And I always lost. People may be more prone to developing an eating disorder, perhaps due to a personality trait or a (4) lack of security in childhood. [2] One of those who followed Goldmans version was Robert Pattison, professor of English at Long Island University and author of The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism, published in 1987 by Oxford University Press. It is Goldmans purpose to entirely discredit Elvis Presley, the culture that produced him, and the culture he helped createto altogether dismiss and condemn, in other words, not just Elvis Presley, but the white working-class South from which he came, and the pop world which emerged in his wake. In later years, Lamar Fike returned to Nashville to work as an assistant to record producer and label executive Jimmy Bowen, most notably during Bowen's tenure as the head of Capitol Records, 1989-1995. Larry Fike . He will then say that he is sorry that he cannot spend more time with them! After attending the Columbia Military Academy in Tennessee, graduating in 1954, Fike bumped into the young Elvis in Memphis before the latter burst onto the scene, and joined his entourage in 1957, by which time Elvis was already the hottest property in pop music. He first got to know him through Elvis's mother, Gladys, and it was she who told her son to trust their fellow Mississippian before she died in 1958, just as Elvis was conquering the world. Lamar R. Fike & Janice L. (Fadal) Fike Married: April 12, 1980 Status: Unknown Married at: Mc lennan County, TX Janice L. (Fadal) Fike Lamar R. Fike Child Spouse: Lamar R. Fike Born c. 1936 Friends Friends can be as close as family. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. The literature suggests Elvis was an unfaithful husband, once punched Charlie Hodge, and had a liaison with a girlfriend of Jerry Schilling (sources: "Elvis and Me"; "Elvis and the Memphis Mafia"; the Guralnick biographies). Never did meet him; but came very close to him when leaving the fourteen Elvis concerts I attended. In the immortal words of Alice from the old Honeymooners TV show, Blimp Takes Off. Agent Kevin Eggers brought Fike together with Albert Goldman, a fifty-four-year-old pop critic and former college professor. When he asks poignantly, "How do you save a man from himself? They were not the poor, helpless best friends of Elvis you portray them to be; for the best part they were sycophantic, jealous, arrogant, rude and were in constant competition with each other to be Elvis's favourite. While most of Elvis is written in the voice of the hipster (theys many a crazy, likah drinkin pill-poppin countrah boy that kin get hissef jes as racked-up n ragged as the craziest coon on Beale Street), in the addled syntax of a person who dictates rather than writes (envying what is beyond one), or in the tones of a man who simply cant be bothered with decent language when the subject of that language is so obviously contemptible (What really bugged Elvis was that they could never find one of those trick cars, like they have in the circus), here Goldman slips easily into the simultaneously vague and definitive cadences of the social scientist. Alan Fortas, Lamar Fike, George Klein, Elvis Presley, Billy Smith and Louis Harris, pictured sat round a table in the hospital conference room waiting for news of Elvis' mother's condition. Perhaps the most famous statement in the history of rock n roll is that attributed to Sam Phillips by Marion Keisker, his co-manager at Sun during the early and mid-fifties, and in fact the person who truly discovered Elvisnoting his name, vocal style, and a phone number at which he could be reached after the eighteen-year-old showed up at the Sun studio to make a hear-your-own-voice record so that he could hear his own voice. Unfortunately he did not improve and was sent back to the hospital about a month ago. He was 75. The purpose of the study was to affirm that the poor were poor because they were inferior, that social programs (for, say, the eradication of pellagraor rickets) were a waste of money, and that certain sectors of the American population had no place in society. or don't show this againI am good at figuring things out. Ultimately they were all as bad as one another, none of them being of any real benefit to Elvis. Gone and forgotten. Lisa Marie Presley's Cause of Death Revealed. Year should not be greater than current year. I got fired about 500 times, but it's all part of it. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. 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. 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