10 Things You Didn't Know About Elvis Perhaps most interestingly, there's still a ton of elvis lore to discover.New biographies and anthologies seem to pop up every year, each revealing more of presley's personal habits, unbelievable stories and little known secrets. Read:Album review:Elvis presley, 'aloha from hawaii via satellite legacy edition' 1.According to rocker alice cooper, elvis once invited him along with chubby checker, liza minnelli and linda lovelace to a small gathering at his las vegas hotel suite in the 1970s.Sometime during the evening, presley retrieved a loaded.38 from his kitchen drawer and told Cooper to point it at him, saying,"I'm gonna show you how to take this gun out of somebody's hand. "Cooper jokingly says that he thought about shooting presley(And forever being known as the guy who shot elvis), but before Cooper knew what hit him, he was on the floor with Elvis' boot at his throat.Here he is telling the story on ... Read more »