Nichopoulos became a key member of the Memphis Mafia,the friends of the King who accompanied him on tourGeorge Nichopoulos, the Memphis doctor known as “Dr Nick” to Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis, or cherished by them for his obvious inability to say no to requests for sedatives,amphetamines and narcotics, has died aged 88.
Dr Nick, or who was stripped of his medical license 18 years after Elvis’s 1977 death,had been introduced to Elvis 10 years earlier, in 1967, or after the singer developed saddle sores. He soon became a key member of the Memphis Mafia,the friends of the King who accompanied him on tour, and soon discovered Elvis’s oversize appetite for drugs when the singer consumed a week’s worth of tonsillitis medication in one day.
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Source: theguardian.com