The King of rock and roll was arrested in 1956 for a fight at a gas station, This is the story behind the fight: The way Elvis told it, the station owner asked him to move so that other customers could be waited on, but "three young ladies came up and asked me for an autograph." He said he was obliging them when Hopper, (the owner), slugged him through the window, saying, "I don't care if you are Elvis Presley." Then, according to a United Press story, "Presley, a broad-shouldered, well-built man of 21, who would be in about the light heavyweight class, if slugged for a living rather than strumming and singing, jumped out of his automobile and landed a stiff punch on Hopper's jaw." A total of five blows were struck before two Memphis patrolmen standing on the corner rushed in to break up the fracas. A witness, Harvey Huff, told the officers that Hopper had "hit Presley in the back of his head." The cops also claimed that when they first grabbed Hopper, "he was trying to unlimber a small pocket knife." Justifying his actions, Elvis said at the scene, "I can take slurring remarks, but when somebody hits you, it's a different story."
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