Videos and audio reels of Elvis Presley’s last performances in Omaha, Neb., and Rapid city, S.D., are going up for auction on July 26 and 27 at the Mecum Celebrity Items Auction.
The collection includes 27 songs and four-and-a-half hours of unedited concert footage. Backstage scenes featuring Elvis’ girlfriend Ginger Alden and his dad Vernon Presley are also included according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“It was shot in Elvis’ final tour for a one-hour CBS-TV special, Elvis in Concert. The special, which aired two months after Presley’s death in August 1977, was immediately controversial, mostly for the ethics of shining the spotlight on a man so shaky and obviously ill, whose performances ranged wildly form embarrassing and sad to brilliant and triumphant,” Alana Nash, author of The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley said.
The auction requires the reels are not to be duplicated or broadcasted. Other Elvis items included in the auction are his 1972 Cadillac Custom Estate Wagon, which was kept in his manager’s Las Vegas home and then sent to Graceland. His Army Induction and Discharge Papers from 1958-1960, and photos from his time in the Army are also included Antimusic reports.
Other celebrity items included in the auction come from John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Nicholson, Roy Rogers, Hunter S. Thompson, Jimmy Stewart, Burt Reynolds, and Gene Kelly.
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