BACK STORY: THE KING’S GAMBIT

● Rumour has it that at the May 1, 1970 session at Columbia Studios B, New York, both Bob Dylan and George Harrison were waiting for Elvis Presley to arrive. That certainly gives an extra reason for their playing Carl Perkins’ Matchbox and the Everlys’ All I Have To Do Is Dream. Yet, while Presley was certainly in the city, having landed that day at JFK in his $600,000 Convair 880 private jet the Lisa Marie, the singer never showed up.