Is it true that in popular photography, young Madonna asks for an autograph from Elvis Presley?

A picture of the alleged 1970 is walking on the network, on which a girl who looks like the famous singer stands next to the king of Rock-n Rollah. We checked whether this is really the future pop diva.

As reported in social networks, the photo was taken on September 11, 1970 in Detroit. In the center of the picture is a girl who excitedly watches how Elvis Presley leaves her autograph for her. The fact that before us is Madonna Louise Chicone, say resources such as "Amateur", Fedy, "Picabu", Reddit, "VKontakte" And many other Russian and Western sources.

Let's try to figure out what is known today about this situation. Indeed, September 11, 1970, the legendary Elvis Presley at the peak of his glory He performed At the Olympia stadium in Detroit. Other pictures from an autograph session have been preserved, so there is no reason to doubt here. SCREENCED TALES about the Detroit concert of the singer (with photographs, including the picture of interest, and other evidence) can be found on fan sites.

Elvis Presley September 11, 1970

Another question is Madonna Lee in the photo. And there are several circumstances against this.

1. At the time of the concert, the young Madonna Chicone was barely 12 years old. Does a 12-year-old girl look like a picture? Most of the picture commentators believe that no-at least a 17-18-year-old girl is in front of us. This discrepancy seems to have caught the eye of some authors with Reddit that they called Madonna in a picture of 17-year-old and Transferred The time of action in 1975. Which, however, contradicts the facts about the photo and concert of Presley.

2. Does the girl look very much like Madonna in her 12 years? There are also great doubts here. Of the many real youth images of Madonna, we will choose one thing that has at least distant similarity:

Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty images

What do we see here? A different shape of the face, a deep parting in another place, another arrangement of the eyes under the eyebrows, a different shape of the pins between the front teeth and even a less open forehead. But the second photograph, despite the young look, is a little Later, in 1972. On a different picture The beginning of the 1970s, Madonna looks completely a child.

3. Nowhere in his books or interviews, Madonna mentions neither this fact itself, nor at all that she was a fan of Elvis Presley.

4. Four years later, in 1974, Madonna was a fan of another cult singer, David Bowie, and dreamed of getting to his upcoming concert. Father did not allow her to go from the town of Rochester Hills to a nearby Detroit, although the girl was soon supposed to be 16 years old. Moreover, it is unlikely that he releases her 12-year-old. Nevertheless, the Madonna escaped, and this trip turned her whole life, which she Remember Many years later, learning about Bowie's death. Moreover, according to her assurances, this was the first concert to which she fell in her life.

5. On the site Brian’s Elvis Corner It is said that girls who, in the amount of four dozen surrounded Elvis at the entrance to the Hilton Hotel, were a little over 20 years old and they represented mainly the neighboring office of the company Auto Club. Madonna is not suitable for this description in any way.

Thus, there are no serious grounds to argue that the young Madonna Louise Chicone is standing next to Elvis on the famous 1970 picture.

Most likely not true

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