June Juanico: A Candid and Explicit Conversation with one of Elvis Presley's Earliest Lovers.

I did this interview with June Juanico in Dublin in 1997, when she was promoting her wonderfully evocative memoir, Elvis: In The Twilight of Memory. But be warned, apart from telling the tale of a youthful love story cut short by Colonel Parker, and by the romantic/sexual excesses of Elvis himself, it is sexually explicit at times and even addresses a rumour that was circulating at the time, courtesy of the crappy National Enquirer, and Dee Presley, Elvis's stepmother, about Elvis and his mother Gladys. That said, June Juanico, gave me wonderful insights into Elvis recordings I had loved all my life, such as Is It So Strange, and I, much to my embarrassment made her cry by telling her a story about the song Unchained melody which has since turned out to be questionable. Either way, she was once Elvis's lover and I was a lifelong fan, who truly cared about the man, hence this became one of the most intimate and revealing conversations I ever had about Elvis. Indeed, I didn't rediscover the tape until August 2020, and I regret deeply the fact that June wasn't the much-needed female voice in my 2017 documentary, Conversations About The King. But hey, now she has gotten her own 'show' and June Juanico more than deserves it.