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{SPEAKER name="Audience-1"} --characterization?

{SPEAKER name="Warren Perry"}
That's an interesting characterization and I have heard it a few times. I think,

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I think it's, it's more optimistic to say he might have been,

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he might have been at a low point with respect to movies, but he was always reinventing himself.

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He didn't tour a lot during the 1960s because he was working in the movies,

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while in the 1970s he wasn't making a lot of movies because he was spending all his time touring or performing in Vegas.

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So, it might have been a visual mo- you know a visual ebb, his audio was everywhere,

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and I remember when I was in - let's see, I think I was in 6th grade I think in 1976, and he had songs on the charts in 1976.

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So I, I don't know, I always think, I wonder what - you know if he were alive - what would he, you know,

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he'd be Broadway, or you know, maybe more Vegas or- You know he never toured outside--Say that again Sid, I'm sorry?

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{SPEAKER name="Sid"}
I would kind of think a Sinatra-like career, if he had lived. He certainly was capable, tremendously versatility--

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{SPEAKER name="Warren Perry"}
Yeah.

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{SPEAKER name="Sid"}
And, you know, you do the Vegas thing, on the con--you know, as Sinatra did in the 70s— on the concert tours, New York,--

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{SPEAKER name="Warren Perry"}
Yeah.

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{SPEAKER name="Sid"}
I could have seen Elvis do-- if he had stayed healthy.

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{SPEAKER name="Warren Perry"}
Yeah, which you know from time to time we see these stars and they, and they go through these bouts,

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and they, you know, it might be-it might be, uh, they might be in need of rehabbing for pharmaceuticals, or

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food, or drinking, or what have you. And by the time he passed away,

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well, you know, he died of cardiac arrhythmia, but it was brought on by all sorts of things.

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Certainly he was overweight when he passed away.

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It would've- it would be real interesting to see what path that career took, after that.

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{SPEAKER name="Warren Perry"}
He was 42 when he passed away.

{SPEAKER name="Sid"}
Yes.

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{SPEAKER name="Warren Perry"}
Oddly, his mother was the same age when she passed away.

{SPEAKER name="Sid"}
Mmmm-mmm-mm. [agreement]

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{SPEAKER name="Audience-2"}
He was tremendously overweight at that time.

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{SPEAKER name="Warren Perry"}
He was he was pretty overweight at that time. So, yeah.

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{SPEAKER name="Warren Perry"}
OK--

{SPEAKER name="Audience-3"}
For some reason--

{SPEAKER name="Audience-4"}
Thank you John--

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{SPEAKER name="Warren Perry"}
Thank you very much, thank you for coming out.

{SPEAKER name="Audience-5"}
Good job!

{SPEAKER name="Audience-6"}
Thank you!

{SPEAKER name="Warren Perry"}
Thanks!
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