EIN received the following message from Marty Lacker after yesterday's story about Radford Ellis' claim Vernon Presley offered him a job as Elvis' double:
"Although my memory is still very good, just to be sure and fair I checked with Billy, Sonny and Lamar and NONE of us remember anyone by the name of Radford Ellis. Seems like, although he's a bit harmless in his story, Ellis is another bullshitter like Billy Miller.At least one of the four of us was with Elvis every day during the period Ellis states and he was not a friend of Elvis.These people come up with their stories because Elvis and in this case Vernon too, is gone but they forget one big thing, we are still here. These people don't understand that we know just about everything Elvis did and who he did it with and who was around. In many instances we knew more than his father, Priscilla and certainly Lisa Marie.I don't say that to make ourselves important. Fame and a $1.25 will get you on the bus. It doesn't mean anything to us. All we do is state fact and we tell it like it is for a number of reasons. One being that Elvis is too important of a historical icon for false information to be put out there.First of all, that's the way it should be with anyone. It's a dis-service to Elvis just as it is a dis-service to the millions of worldwide fans. They often complain that they don't know who or what to believe about Elvis, us and all those years and that's one reason we have been sticklers for the truth.There are a number of things in that story sent in by EP Gold that Ellis stated that are so unlike Elvis to do and I will leave that alone for now.We just thought your readers should know the truth." (News, Source: Marty Lacker)
Posted: 29th. April 2008