Liberace gave up his piano and gold sequined jacket to Presley for the latter’s guitar and striped sports coat in an impromptu jam session backstage after Liberace’s appearance at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas on November 16, 1956.
Lamar Fike wrote in 'Elvis Aaron Presley: Revelations from the Memphis Mafia' that "Elvis and Liberace had two things in common, other than the fact that they were both musicians. They were both twins who losttheir brothers at birth, and they both loved opulence."