Henry Zebrowski

They say you can't judge a fish by how well they climb a tree.

That's not their job.

Yeah, that's not their job.

But the thing is that Jimmy Savile, if he was going to bring someone into this world, they needed to be almost or just as clever as he was.

Now, as far as how he used musicians as props, Jimmy Savile finally broke through into full celebrity status in the UK in 1961 by borrowing the fame of Elvis Presley.

In January of that year, Savile convinced Decca Records to let him deliver a gold record to Elvis in Los Angeles, where Elvis was filming his new movie, Wild in the Country.

Once Savile arrived here in Los Angeles, he talked his way into meeting Elvis, and he got a photo of himself with the world's most famous singer.

Oh, mama.

After getting this photo, Jimmy blew it up and he put it on billboards all over England.

He wanted to show everyone that he was the first radio DJ to be photographed with Elvis.

This photo went the 60s version of viral.

Everyone was talking about the photo of Jimmy Savile with Elvis.

Jimmy Savile became famous from that point until the moment of his death 50 years later.

Yeah.

And I think Jimmy Savile, what he understood better than anything was social systems.

Yeah.

And that's also, I think, why he never really left the UK.

I was just thinking that.

It wasn't just because people didn't know who he was outside of the UK.

Couldn't get away with it if they didn't.