I Will Always Love You
When Dolly Parton released her song “I Will Always Love You” in 1974, it made a huge impression on Elvis. He wanted to record the song himself, but he asked for half of the song’s publishing rights, which Parton refused. In an interview with W, she said: “I wanted to hear Elvis sing it, and it broke my heart — I cried all night. But I had to keep that copyright in my pocket.” On the day of his divorce from Priscilla, he sang the song to her.
I Will Always Love You
He Thought He Could Train Her
Throughout the time that Elvis and Priscilla were together, he tried to train her into the exact woman he wanted her to be. She shared that she had become Elvis’s “own living doll, to fashion as he pleased.” She admitted that she lost her life during this time. Elvis’s old friend Rex Mansfield shared in his book Sergeant Presley that Elvis had once said about her: “She’s young enough that I can train her any way I want.”
He Thought He Could Train Her