Elvis Presley's Graceland still shows the late King of Rock and Roll's mansion just as he left it on the day of his death.
Fans can surely recall how Presley had his last breath upstairs at Graceland. Though the mansion can attract tourists who want to see the late singer's home before his death, it has been off-limits to the public.
Although Presley died decades ago, his private area in Graceland remains untouched and perfectly preserved due to his daughter, Lisa Marie's request.
In a recent Instagram Q&A with Director of Archives Angie Marchese (via Express), her job in the past years is to maintain Presley's bedroom and other rooms just as he left them when he died.
"So the one thing about Graceland and its mystique is the upstairs and the fact that it was Elvis' private area. So no one is allowed to go upstairs," she said.
The archivist added that the whole Graceland looks as if the singer just got up and went somewhere else.
Marchese added that they go upstairs to maintain the space. She also revealed that the record on the record player is still there, as well as a Styrofoam cup on a bookshelf.
The record player in question contains songs by JD Sumner and the Stamps. Sunmer ended up singing at Presley's funeral.
Elvis Presley's Last Moments Revisited
On Aug. 16, 1977 at 1:30 p.m inside his Memphis mansion. Doctors said that he died of a heart attack that was likely worsened by his addiction to prescription barbiturates.
A day before his death, Presley and his fiancée Ginger Alden visited his dentist, Lester Hoffman, due to persistent tooth pain. Upon returning to Graceland, he called his personal physician, Dr. Nichopoulos, to ask for painkillers.
He was then prescribed six Dilaudid tablets and asked his stepbrother, Ricky Standly, to get them from the pharmacy at Baptist Memorial Hospital. He took everything after getting it.
In the wee hours of the day he died, he played racquetball on the court of his house with his cousin Billy and his wife, Jo.
As Presley was still unable to sleep after playing a game, he took the prescription drugs Dr. Nick gave to him. At 7:00 a.m., he took the second package of the pills as he was desperate to sleep ahead of his concert in Portland, Maine.
He eventually took three separate packages of pills and painkillers. He told Ginger he was going to the bathroom as he suffered extreme constipation. But hours later, Presley was found dead on the bathroom's floor.
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