New York (1972)
On June 9th, 1972, I flew to New York with Elvis for the Madison Square Garden show. There were four shows,all sellouts. We stayed on the top floor of the New York Hilton Hotel. We had the entire top floor. The show at Madison Square Garden was incredible. During one of the intermissions, (I always walked around.) I was wandering around and ran into a man backstage who stopped me to talk. I discovered he was the manager of the Garden, and I told him I was a jeweler. I really wasn't part of the show; I was just a friend. He shared with me that in all of the years of experience he had with the Garden, no one had ever pre-sold the whole Madison Square Garden for four shows in a row, but Elvis.
