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Thank you to Elvis Australia and Elvis CBS TV Special
Elvis’ Last Vacation, Hawaii, March 1977
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Wow, he looks a lot like some of those Elvis impersonators.
No, he doesn’t unless you’re just half-paying attention . Most impersonators do a really weak impression of him but few actually pull it off. I admit here he looks closer to the stereotypical big black hair, sideburns, sunglasses and heavier weight. But most of them never actually look like his face and always wear sunglasses on stage, as if he did that more than just a few rare shows.
These photos always get me: there’s some joy and relaxation for him on an island he loved. He should have been given all of 1977 off to recover and detox.. He was only 42 in these shots. We still miss Elvis. There’ll never be another.
great photos… at least he died happy, surrounded by people he loved.
Are you on crack? He didn’t die happy. He died addicted to drugs, in the bathroom, alone, in a pool of his own vomit.
These photos are by Joseph Tunzi.
Please credit
Oh wait – maybe stills taken by Tv at the same time? Only I have seen pics just like these credited to JT in various books etc
We always seek to give credit wherever possible, Topov, so if you can clarify the photographer for us, we will add that in.
Who’s the girl in the top pics ? (orange jumper, blonde hair)
At Iain, doesn’t it look a little like Kristen Stewart, mixed some with Jody Foster?
Her name is Kristen Foster.
I think the girl in the top 4 pics is Shirley Deue – she was the then girlfriend of Memphis Mafia member Joe Esposito .
Pic 5 is Ginger Alden, pics 6,7,8 are Ginger Alden (in the towelling robe on Elvis’ left) and her sister Rosemary on his right.
Pic 9, the couple lying on the ground to the left of the pic (waving woman) are the Larry Gellers.
Pic taken in Kailua.
The photographer is Joseph A. Tunzi of JAT Publishing (Hawaii) – if you look online you’ll see he did lots of Elvis pics – and has published some books with his photos – including these taken in March 1977. A copy of one of these pics is in Peter Guralnik’s book “Careless Love”.
I was 17 when these were taken. By 1977, Elvis was a laughingstock. It’s only after he died that he once again became venerated as some sort of idol. It’s too bad what too much success did to him, really.