Elvis ex confesses hit track lyrics impressed by dwelling with the King | Music | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Over 50 years in the past, Miss Tennessee mannequin Linda Thompson moved into Graceland with Elvis Presley following his separation and eventual divorce from Priscilla. After 4 and a half years, Linda had had sufficient of the movie star way of life and the couple broke up round Christmas 1976, lower than a 12 months earlier than the singer died of a coronary heart assault on the bathroom at simply 42. In the a long time since, Linda grew to become a profitable lyricist, generally channelling her lingering romantic emotions for Elvis into her songs. One of those, a Whitney Houston basic, she co-wrote with ex-husband David Foster.

Penned for the 1992 movie The Bodyguard, the Oscar-nominated I Have Nothing included traces about Linda’s love for Elvis like “I never knew love like I’ve known it with you” and “don’t walk away from me, I have nothing, nothing, nothing if I don’t have you.” This has lengthy been a hearsay and was addressed by the 75-year-old in a brand new Instagram put up right now. She captioned it, “It’s true that living with a diva legend like Elvis helped to inspired these lyrics that I wrote”, earlier than happening to elucidate.

Linda confessed: “So many people have asked me if the lyrics I wrote for the Whitney Houston classic I HAVE NOTHING were inspired by my years long, romantic relationship living with Elvis Presley. The answer is absolutely yes! Elvis was a world famous diva rockstar, and Whitney‘s character was a world famous diva popstar. When you live with an icon intimately like I did, you get to understand them from their deepest soul outward. And all the emotions I experienced during those years have become my co-writer in many song I have written since…”