Alice and the Mad Hitter
Alice Cooper has revealed that upon meeting Elvis Presley for the first time, The King handed him a pistol and told him to put the gun to his (Elvis’s) head. Speaking to London’s Daily Mirror, Cooper said the incident occurred in 1971, in Elvis’s penthouse suite in a Las Vegas hotel: “Elvis took me into the kitchen, opened a drawer, and pulled out a loaded pistol, telling me to put it to his head.