Elvis gets out from behind the wheel of the first Cadillac and walks over to me and looks me right in the eye with those blue eyes and he said, ‘Where you going?’ I said, ‘Well, they’re closing the rink down.’ He said, ‘Oh, no. I was at a skating rink one night in Memphis and about midnight I walk outside thinking that they were closing the roller rink down and a couple of Cadillacs pull up.
Skating until daylight with Elvis: “When I first met Elvis, I was 16. “When I would sit with him, I always knew to drink it all in… to remember the moment because I knew each time that I was in the presence of greatness,” Sheppard admits. In celebration of Presley’s birthday, Sheppard, 74, shared his five favorite memories of Elvis with Billboard. My best friend, Leif Shire, he is the horn leader and he’s the one that came up with those incredible horn lines and put them in there for me.” “There’s a horn section that Kelly Clarkson uses on her tour. “I was missing those horns that Elvis used to have, the big brass,” he recalls.
1 hits on Billboard‘s Hot Country Songs chart during the ‘70s and ‘80s, including such smashes as “Slow Burn,” “Only One You” and “War is Hell (On the Homefront).” He says it took a while for him to finish recording “I Wanna Live Like Elvis.” As he studied the track for several days after recording it, he finally realized the song needed a brass section.
Sheppard knows what people want to hear, having amassed 14 No. “Sometimes it can come in the form of a song, and this song just makes you chuckle.” But what’s good in life and what’s needed in life is laughter,” he explains.
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