Elvis closes the show in Indianapolis; no one in the hall knows it is his last

By the summer of 1977, Elvis Presley's health had been visibly deteriorating for years — the sold-out crowds still came, but the man on stage was a shadow of the performer who had rewritten American music. On June 26, 1977, Presley took the stage at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana, for what would be the last concert of his life. He poured through the set with an intensity that witnesses remembered long afterward. Fifty-two days later, on August 16, 1977, he was dead…