I really am a big Elvis fan – at six foot three I’m one of the biggest. In all the excitement about accompanying the Beatles to their meeting with Elvis, I sent my suit to the cleaners to prepare for the big meeting. However, the cleaners had sewn up my pockets where I kept a bunch of guitar picks that I always had on hand for the boys. So, inevitably when Elvis asked for a guitar pick that night, I went into a panic. I couldn’t access the picks in my sewn-up pockets, so I frantically ran into the kitchen and smashed up a bunch of plastic spoons to create makeshift picks. I’d have loved to have given Elvis a pick, have him play it, then got it back and had it framed.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I really am a big Elvis fan – at six foot three I’m one of the biggest. In all the excitement about accompanying the Beatles to their meeting with Elvis, I sent my suit to the cleaners to prepare for the big meeting. However, the cleaners had sewn up my pockets where I kept a bunch of guitar picks that I always had on hand for the boys. So, inevitably when Elvis asked for a guitar pick that night, I went into a panic. I couldn’t access the picks in my sewn-up pockets, so I frantically ran into the kitchen and smashed up a bunch of plastic spoons to create makeshift picks. I’d have loved to have given Elvis a pick, have him play it, then got it back and had it framed." in the context of "Mal Evans, the Beatles' road manager recounting his time with Elvis and the Beatles on the night of August 27, 1965, when they met at Elvis' 525 Perugia Way home in Bel Air, CA. It helps understand why on his first visit to Graceland, in 2013, Paul McCartney took a pick, engraved with his initials and placed it alongside his grave, with a tweet that said "So you can play guitar in heaven". Evans' story was published in an article entitled "When The Beatles met Elvis, who was Presley’s biggest fan?", on August 26, 2016." to mean that wisdom is timeless.