Elvis Presley offers a look inside Graceland in 1965: See the photos here

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Back in 1965, Elvis Presley had misgivings about allowing pictures to be taken inside his Graceland home.

"It's not that I don't want pictures," he told The Commercial Appeal. "You know what I mean. Some people might think I am looking for publicity or trying to exploit my home. I certainly don't want anyone to think that."

He let Commercial Appeal photographer Charles Nicholas inside Graceland for a piece that published March 7, 1965, in the first issue of Mid-South, the now-defunct Sunday magazine of The CA.

Elvis Presley sits at a piano inside Graceland in a photograph published March 7, 1965, in the first issue of Mid-South, the now-defunct Sunday magazine of The Commercial Appeal.
Elvis Presley sits at a piano inside Graceland in a photograph published March 7, 1965, in the first issue of Mid-South, the now-defunct Sunday magazine of The Commercial Appeal.

Nicholas captured images of Presley, as well as of several rooms inside the Memphis home that Elvis purchased on March 19, 1957, for $102,500.

Elvis complained of the long sessions with photographers making movie publicity stills: "I try to cut the time down to three or four hours, but sometimes you have to pose for six or eight. A man only has so many different smiles, and I don't have many."

This article originally appeared on Memphis Commercial Appeal: Elvis offers look inside Graceland in 1965: See the photos here

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