By Caroline Howe for MailOnline. The King had an unquenchable appetite for food, drugs, lavishing expensive gifts to friends and - not surprisingly - women and sex, especially sex with virgins. Elvis' aides fed him a steady stream of women in a juggling act that became a perfected revolving door routine, a new book discloses. He concocted a variety of stories to get women to agree to spend the night with him — which sometimes was no more than just being motherly and comforting him because he didn't want to be alone. But his skills as a lover were often demeaned by his conquests.

The photo collage shows the singer and the US beauty Peggy Lipton. In her biography, she remembers: Elvis was a bedroom disappointment. Peggy's career began in s. At the age of eighteen , Peggy was a successful model in New York.

Elvis Presley had many close relationships throughout his career. The strongest of all the personal relationships of Elvis Presley, by far, was that he had with his mother Gladys, as described below. In a newspaper interview with The Memphis Press Scimitar , Elvis himself was open about the close relationship to his mother. According to Elaine Dundy , "it was agony for her to leave her child even for a moment with anyone else, to let anyone else touch Elvis.