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Carly Simon's role in creating the myth that Elvis Presley died of a drug overdose

letters Fri 5 Nov 2021 16.57 GM

Phil Scraton Elvis biographer on the the singer-songwriter's famous for her greatest hits, You’re So Vain, and Nobody Does It Better for the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me) years of persistent lies about Elvis's cause of death.

the rock-'n'-roll legend died of heart complications in August 1977 aged 42 now with DNA evidence  maybe linking it to family genetic heart issues. But at the time a great public controversy erupted. The the coroner of Shelby County, Tennessee—found that Elvis died of a heart attack not linked to drug misuse. However, ABC’s “20/20,” anchored by Ted Koppel, believed Elvis had died of a drug overdose and stated there was a cover-up regarding his death. This led to many misconceptions in the yellow press and other media which started this pubic  misconception he died of an overdose, IN 1994 THE STATE OF TENNESSE REOPENED THE AUTOPSY ON ELVIS & RETAINED DR. Cyril wecht  who reconfirmed the original ruling  that Elvis died of heart failure ending the the public misconception that he died from an overdose .Simon  stunned and infuriated millions of Presley fans around the world including ex wife Priscilla and daughter lisa marie  in her first serious  autobiography published in 1995 called  Carly nobody does it better when she wrote that  Elvis who she met in 1973 by chance after her first big hit your so vain that the elvis who  died of an accidental overdose aged 42 in august 1977 just as the spy that loved me was realised may have influenced her late husband James Taylor even though he took heroin which Elvis never took. Simon now 76 wrote Drugs played a part in the breakdown in 1983 of her decade-long marriage to Taylor, she says. “I was too young. I think we were both too young to understand what the disease of drugs was like. He was blinded by the force of the drugs he was high on and maybe influenced by Elvis in the 70's she wrote I said to him 1979 a couple years before we divorced in a last chance do you want to die of a overdose like Elvis did two years ago  In a TV interview, in 2002  she told Clive Anderson that in fact her allegations had been watered down: “I would have got into more trouble if it had all gone in about Elvis  Simon has seen a radical shift in attitudes towards drugs during her lifetime. She is adamant Elvis and others did not help Taylor who started taking drugs when they met in 1970 and married in 1972. . There is no doubt that autobiography and later memoir and persistent mentions about Elvis dying of an overdose  in the 1980's and in the mid-1990s contributed significantly to the myth that Elvis overdosed. I exposed this in 2002 in my book Elvis what really happened: Also Simon never said elvis was an  impotent drug addict incapable of taking care of himself.. when the 1994 reopening of his autopsy which again ruled out drugs and received detailed accounts  in the press in America and else where  giving her  many opportunities to correct this  erroneous view. However, she repeated the misstated Presley’s cause of death years later as well. speaking in 2009, she said: “I now accept the investigations and reinvestigations into his death  have made me realise I was misinformed. I wasn’t trying to be vindictive or unsympathetic or hurt Priscilla or Lisa Marie, but my opinion has altered over the years. It was never my intention to hurt anyone.” Priscilla said in 2015 on Elvis 80th birthday celebration's carly  will never be forgiven  for comments in her  1995 autobiography, in which she said Elvis helped to influence James Taylor on drugs which broke her marriage up , comments she later compounded on a TV chat show in england. It was a year after the autopsy was reopened which again ruled out drugs which got a lot of coverage in states, she wrote he died of a self-induced drug overdose at a time Lisa Marie filed for divorce from Michael jackson.~