Elvis first billed performance: How incredibly nervous King overcame his stage fright

So, in the end: “Elvis shakes his legs again during his encore, but this time he does so on purpose.”

And that’s where The King’s famous gyrating hips came from; the same ones that were censored from one of his Ed Sullivan show appearances –when the live TV camera filmed him above the waist.

Although Elvis’ stage fright would continue, admitted his ex-wife Priscilla Presley.

Appearing on This Morning in 2019, she said: “Even when he did the ’68 special: nerve-racking. He wanted to stop right then and there.”