There isn’t a day that goes by that Jerry Schilling doesn’t think of Elvis Presley. After all, he wakes up in a house high above the Sunset Strip that Elvis gave to him in 1974. Schilling, 69, says his memory is still vivid of the moment when Elvis handed him a personal check to buy it. “It was right here on this balcony where Elvis turned to me and said, ‘Jerry, your mother died when you were a year old. You never had a home. I wanted to be the one to give it to you.’” Elvis could see through people. He was a deep man in an unassuming way. Elvis was one of the brightest people I knew. He innately knew human nature. Schilling says that his time with Elvis eclipses everything else. For as long as he lives, he won’t forget the man he met playing football so many decades ago. “Elvis was on the leading edge,” Schilling says. “He had no prejudices. He literally changed the world. And he was my best friend.”
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:18:30 +0000
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