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Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle.
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Press conference (June 1972) as quoted in Elvis — Word for Word : What He Said, Exactly As He Said It (1999), by Jerry Osborne, p. 208

 

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