The 50 Dumbest Rock-Star Extravagances
1. Snack attack - Elvis Presley - Item: Peanut butter and bacon sandwiches
Cost: $3,387.28
On the night of Feburary 1, 1976, Elvis Presley pulled off a stunt that combined three of his favorite activities — profligate spending, showing off to cops and eating repellent things. While entertaining two Colorado policemen at Graceland, he mentioned a sandwich that he had once eaten at the Colorado Gold Mine Company restaurant in Denver: a hollowed, buttered loaf, filled with peanut butter, jelly and a pound of fried bacon. The sandwich was meant to feed eight, but Presley had finished one unaided. Remarkably, one of the cops expressed an interest. Even more remarkably, Presley insisted they should head to Denver to try it, a distance of 1,000 miles. His stretch Mercedes took them to the Memphis airport, where his private jet, the Lisa Marie — upholstered in aquamarine plush in further testament to the King’s understated elegance — awaited. Two hours later, they landed in Denver, where 22 of the $49.95 “Fool’s Gold” sandwiches on silver platters, plus a bucket of Perrier water and a case of champagne, were brought to a private hangar at the airport by the restaurateur, his wife and a waiter.
50 Dumbest Rock-Star Extravagances
posted by Manny @ 11:38 PM
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lol. what's hilarious is that i was just at graceland, and they tell the same story, only without the pound of bacon, that the sandwich was meant for 8, and that the people he brought along were a couple of cops and not his close friends.
in any event, the man was the original rock star. you wouldn't have a 'dumbest rock-star extravagances' list if it wasn't for elvis' pioneering work in this field.
but how did you miss out on his buying not just one jet, but two. or using the smaller one to fly a fan's goddamned dog for surgery in boston? the dog subsequently died on the operating table.
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