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Elvis Presley dyed his locks black every three weeks and had mascara applied to touch up his roots for his funeral, personal hairdresser reveals - on what would have been The King's 89th birthday


Larry Geller, 84, was Elvis Presley's personal hairstylist and spent two hours a day with The King of Rock from 1964 until his dying day on August 16, 1977.

'We were talking interestingly enough about the future and he was very positive about the coming year because he was going to make a lot of changes,' Geller said of The King's final birthday on January 8, 1977. Geller, pictured crouched down, said after he washed, trimmed and styled Elvis's hair for the first time, they spent nearly two hours talking about spiritual subjects and life's bigger questions A voice from the other end, with a Southern drawl, says ''Larry, I am sitting here with Elvis Presley at his home here in Bel Air and he wants to know if you would like to come up and fix his hair.''

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