<p id=”par-1_51″>New Year’s Eve was a happy and busy time of the year for <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/elvis-presley/”>Elvis Presley</a>. Sandwiched between Christmas and his birthday, Elvis was either celebrating or working as the new year began. However, there was one time when Elvis threw a rocking celebration and was a no-show at his own party.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-why-didn-t-elvis-presley-go-to-his-own-new-year-s-eve-party”>Why didn’t Elvis Presley go to his own New Year’s Eve party?</h2>
<p id=”par-2_30″>Elvis Presley began throwing annual New Year’s Eve parties beginning in 1962. The King of Rock and Roll began a <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/elvis-presley-67-year-old-item-defines-graceland-holiday-magic.html/?swcfpc=1″>holiday tradition </a>that continued through the end of the decade.</p>
<p id=”par-3_28″>Each year, Elvis would book the Manhattan Club in Memphis reports <a href=”http://www.elvis-history-blog.com/elvis-new-years.html” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>The Elvis History Blog</a>. He would invite his family and friends, sometimes numbering 200 people in total.</p>
<p id=”par-4_29″>After the traditional fireworks <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/elvis-presley-traditional-foods-ate-christmas-graceland.html/?swcfpc=1″>at Graceland</a>, Elvis, his family, and friends headed into Memphis to the club. There was always a fully catered dinner followed by a floor show.</p>
<p id=”par-5_55″>However, during one year, Elvis didn’t attend the party he paid for. It wasn’t for not wanting to go, but something simple happened that stopped him from ringing in 1966 in the way he planned. Reportedly, he couldn’t find any parking at the location of Bellevue Boulevard and Person Avenue where the Manhattan Club was located.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-why-did-elvis-start-throwing-new-year-s-eve-parties”>Why did Elvis start throwing New Year’s Eve parties?</h2>
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<p id=”par-6_49″>Before 1962, Elvis Presley was either working on New Year’s Eve or serving his country in the United States Army. In 1960, Elvis remained in California throughout the holiday season, as he had just wrapped filming on <em>Kid Galahad</em>. He subsequently spent that New Year’s in Las Vegas, Nevada.</p>
<p id=”par-7_48″>But, according to Elvis’s history, the real reason Elvis started throwing his luxurious Memphis parties was to impress <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/elvis-presley-wild-christmas-keepsake-priscilla-still-displayed-graceland.html/?swcfpc=1″>Priscilla Beaulieu, his new girlfriend</a>. She arrived in Memphis in 1962 from Germany to spend the holidays with Elvis and his family, and the party was reportedly for her benefit.</p>
<p id=”par-8_39″>However, one year later, Elvis opted out of a big party and instead, rang in the new year with Priscilla and his friends after renting out the Memphian theater where they watched movies to celebrate the end of 1963.</p>
<p id=”par-9_29″>Through the years 1964 through 1970, Elvis regularly held big parties to ring in the new year. They were held at the Manhattan Club, the Thunderbird Lounge, and TJ’s.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-when-did-elvis-presley-stop-celebrating-new-year-s-eve-so-lavishly”>When did Elvis Presley stop celebrating New Year’s Eve so lavishly?</h2>
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<p id=”par-10_36″>The Elvis History Blog reports that the 1970 bash was the last big party thrown by Elvis Presley to celebrate the new year. By 1971, he scaled down the festivities to a small party at home.</p>
<p id=”par-11_46″>In 1972, Elvis stayed home and readied himself for a major work event, the filming of his 1973 satellite TV concert, broadcast from Hawaii. By the end of that year, Elvis was reportedly recovering from some health issues and did not celebrate the new year typically.</p>
<p id=”par-12_40″>The last two New Year’s Eve’s of his life, Elvis was working. On December 31, 1975, he appeared at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan. One year later, in 1976, he played a concert at the Civic Center Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.</p>
<p id=”par-13_13″>On Aug. 16, 1977, Elvis died at his Graceland home. He was 42.</p>