Volume 28, Number 20 · December 17, 1981
Relic
By Luc Sante
Elvis
by Albert Goldman
McGraw-Hill, 595 pp., $14.95
Private Elvis
photographs by Rudolf Paulini, edited by Diego Cortez
Jochen Fey (Stuttgart), 199 pp., $6.00 (paper)
Elvis Presley died in the early morning of August 16, 1977, officially of 'cardiac arrhythmia.' Traces were found of at least eight, perhaps eleven, drugs in his system, constituting a very jet-age sort of litany: Quaalude, Valium, Valmid, Demerol, Hycodan, Dilaudid, Amytal, Carbital, Seconal, Placidyl, antihistamine. The body was bloated, the face was purple with blood.
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