Elvis Presley, the king of rock 'n' roll, ended up a prisoner of his own success. Manager Col. Parker scripted every move of his career (sometimes good, many times bad—see those later movies for evidence). Elvis couldn't go out during the day because he would have been mobbed at every turn, so he slept all day and partied all night, leading to a cycle of sleeping pills and amphetamines—and dependence on those pills and others, including narcotic pain medication. During his Las Vegas years, he had two concerts a night and used the pills to get him "up" for the show and come back down afterward.
Elvis was surrounded by "yes men" placating him and not looking out for his best interests—though, on the flipside, if anyone said "no" to him, that person was ejected from his inner circle. And when you've got staff to cook anything you want to eat at any time of day, well, that doesn't bode well for the waistline or overall physical health either, unfortunately.
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