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Elvis: where where you when you got the news?

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Mosaic | 16:24 Thu 16th Aug 2012 | ChatterBank
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Ric,ror has just pointed out today's significance - the anniversary of Elvis either dying or going to work in Walmart, Albuquerque.
So where were you when you got the news?
I was planning my fieldwork dissertation for my archaeology degree......the Lune valley seemed somehow less exciting afterwards....
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I seem to remember getting up to hear the news before I went to a cricket match
I remember thinking he was quite old
Of course I realise now how young he was
16:37 Thu 16th Aug 2012
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The Four Pennies - Blackburn's finest.
Only-est.
Holidaying in Llithfaen in North Wales. Went to make a morning cup of tea and heard it on the radio. Thought he was old at 42, now think it is young!
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Hellfire! 42?! never knew that...
I was only 5 at the time - probably in the park playing Football, I guess.
I think it was on the news at 10, I was in bed and my mum came and told me so I got up and watchec.
They used to sing that in the smooch session, at the end of the night just in time to dash across town for last bus, no such thing as a taxi
I was in Roswell (Midlothian) bowling club..my BF was playing in a band there that night..
I really don't remember. I do, however, where I was when I heard the news about JFK. I even remember where I was standing in the room
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I feel somehow comforted that Elvis and George IV shared the same death.
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Lottie - I can recall being very disconcerted at the blurry news footage, and a man reading out the news trying not to cry. I was about 6.
Hope I heard in the evening because I was drinking Martini and lemonade and minding the kids with a friend while Ohs were at the pub. Very 70s and daft. Be the other way round now.
Could have been the morning I suppose.
I think I was 16.
In bed with radio on and cried myself to sleep when I heard
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Oh, Sibbers.......
In Morecambe. It's mini~me birthday tomorrow, and we had gone there
for a short break, with my mum and dad, OH as working, she was three..OH
came up to visit for the day, and told me. I thought he was joking!
He was pre-Bolan, by one month (August/September 1977).

But one "great" that I remember is Buddy Holly, died February 1959.

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