"I want to share with you-the facts-the truth, at last, about me! All of the stuff youv'e been reading about me is junk-pure junk! The other night i had the flu real bad-the flu that's going around. Someone started the report that I was strung out! If I ever find out who started that, I'll knock their G.D. head off! I've never been strung out in my life! For too long, things are made up about me! They are all bunk! Now, I've always been an open and honest man. I will always continue to be. I'm not putting down the people who have written so much junk about me, because I realize that they have to fill their columns and pages with something. But right now, I'm setting the record straight, as it is! I'm not trying to show off or brag, that I am now an eight degree black belt karate holder, and I'm trying for my ninth and tenth!..... Priscilla, stand up and take a bow! (something he never had done while they were married, was introduce Priscilla) Isn't my ex-wife a real beauty? And our daughter Lisa (who Elvis also never, ever showed to the public for fear of kidnapping threats) I'll say the same for my daughter...And my new girlfriend, I want you to meet my new girlfriend Sheila. Stand there a minute, Sheila, show them the ring I gave you. Priscilla and I are close friends, and we'll always be together-after all, we have a daughter to raise. What did you think? Tonight, Priscilla gave me, now get this folks, a $42,000 white Rolls Royce. We're friends, it's nice we can do that. Well, I got part of it back, didn't I?....I;ve got no place to go, and I don't think you have at this hour (about 1:30 a.m.). ALL WE HAVE IS TIME! So how about me singing you some of my new favorites instead of the old 'Polk Salad Annies?'....See this ring? It's the ring I wore on the Aloha Special. I'm going to explain it. It's one large diamond stone in the center with a lot of little ones around it. I'm explaining all this because you helped me pay for it! I've signed a contract here to 1977. Then I'm going to Lake Tahoe to make up for some days when I had the flu during my last engagement....This is my life's blood up here on this stage. I love every minute of it. All those stories about why Priscilla and I split up, it was because of my career. I was away so long. But Priscilla and I will always love and care for and about each other with our daughter. I gave her acouple of things too, aftre the divorce. It's my life's blood.....I appreciate the gesture of people calling me 'the King.' I've never taken that serious, for there is only one king: Jesus Christ. I'd go to church, except when I do, the congregation stares at me instead of listening to the minister. I get embarassed....I didn't plan to say anything. But it's bothered me a long time- all the bunk stuff written up. I know they have to fill pages with print-but I had to get it together once and for all as it is. Only time will tell..."