One of the Elvis fan pages shared rare footage of Linda with Elvis, Lisa Marie and Memphis Mafia wife Jo Smith, who is married to The King’s cousin Billy Smith. The four were captured leaving a store and getting into a car with a caption of Linda’s on dating Elvis included.
After four and a half years, Linda had had enough of the celebrity lifestyle and the couple broke up around Christmas 1976, less than a year before the singer died of a heart attack on the toilet at just 42. (Express)
In the decades since, Linda went on to become a successful lyricist, sometimes channelling her lingering romantic emotions for Elvis into her songs. One of these, a Whitney Houston classic, she co-wrote with ex-husband David Foster.
Penned for 1992’s The Bodyguard, the Oscar-nominated I Have Nothing included lines about Linda’s love for Elvis like “I never knew love like I’ve known it with you” and “don’t walk away from me, I have nothing, nothing, nothing if I don’t have you.”
Linda’s love of The King and heartbreaking split is also clearly displayed in the lyrics of a song she co-wrote with Clint Eastwood and Carole Bayer Sager for Diana Krall, back in 1999.
Linda recently shared the audio for Why Should I Care on her Instagram stories, pointing out that she wrote the track with Eastwood and Carole. The post included six couple photos of herself with Elvis, heavily implying the song was about her relationship with the star.
