However, for the dedicated fans who rushed to Prestwick Airport – at that time being used as an American military base – on that March evening, simply seeing the man in person was enough to leave them all shook up.
“I was an office girl with a firm of solicitors and my mother phoned me,” says Anne, who lived in Prestwick.
“We didn’t have a phone so my mum had to run down to the telephone box and she phoned me just at 10 to five, just before I finished for the day.
“She told me that Sgt Phelps, who I used to babysit for, had just been at the door and that Elvis was arriving between six and seven.”
Anne had adored the King’s music since she first heard him on the radio, and jokingly called him her first boyfriend.
“I just loved his looks, I loved his music – I loved all of him, really.”