esley] was his own man. ... If we hadn't been around, he would have been dead a lot earlier."[3

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Moman, to his fury, received neither credit on the
records nor royalties for his work.[322]

Throughout his entire career, Presley performed in
only three venues outside the United States—all
of them in Canada,
during brief tours there in 1957. Rumors that he would play overseas for the
first time were fueled in 1974 by a million-dollar bid for an Australian tour.
Parker was uncharacteristically reluctant, prompting those close to Presley to
speculate about the manager's past and the reasons for his apparent
unwillingness to apply for a passport. Parker ultimately squelched any notions
Presley had of working abroad, claiming that foreign security was poor and the
venues unsuitable for a star of his magnitude.[323]

Parker arguably exercised tightest control over
Presley's movie career. In 1957, Robert Mitchum asked Presley to costar with
him in Thunder Ro Louis Vuitton
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offered starring roles in West Side Storyand Midnight Cowboy.[325] In 1974,
Barbra Streisand approached Presley to star with her in the remake of A Star is
Born.[326] In each case, any ambitions the singer may have had to play such
parts were thwarted by his manager's negotiating demands or flat refusals. In
Lacker's description, "The only thing that kept Elvis going after the
early years was a new challenge. But Parker kept running everything into the
ground."[319] The operative attitude may have been summ    Louis Vuitton outleted
up best by the response Leiber and Stoller received when they brought a serious
film project for Presley to Parker and the Hill and Range owners for their
consideration. In Leiber's telling, Jean Aberbach warned them to never again
"try to interfere with the business or artistic workings of the process
known as Elvis Presley".[163]

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In the early 1960s, the circle of friends with whom
Presley constantly surrounded himself until his death came to be known as the
"Memphis Mafia".[327]"Surrounded by the[ir] parasitic
presence", as journalist John Harris puts it, "it was no wonder that
as he slid into addiction and torpor, no-one raised the alarm: to them, Elvis
was the bank, and it had to remain open."[328] Tony Brown, who played
piano for Presley regularly in the last two years of the singer's life,
observed his rapidly declining health and the urgent need to address it:
"But we all knew it was hopeless because Elvis was surrounded by that
little circle of people ... all those so-called friends".[329] In the
Memphis Mafia's defense, Marty Lacker has said, "[Presley] was his own
man. ... If we hadn't been around, he would have been dead a lot
earlier."[330]

Larry Geller became
Presley's hairdresser in 1964. Unlike others in the Memphis Mafia, he was
interested in spiritual questions and recalls how, from their first
conversation, Presley revealed his secret thoughts and

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