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April
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review of 'Official Opening' and party for "Jailhouse Rock the
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OUR 'Elvis Moment in Time'
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50th Anniversary of Rock 'n' Roll
Biggest
Elvis Event
in UK History
July
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July 5th 2004 will be the last
worldwide celebration for Elvis. It will be the 50th Anniversary of
Rock 'n' Roll commemorating the day when Elvis recorded his first
record 'That's All Right' in Sun Studios on July 5th 1954. The 25th
Anniversary of Elvis' death on August 16th 2002, was massive but
July 5th 2004 will be even bigger. It will be called an "Elvis
Moment in Time" when radio stations all over the world will
simultaneously play "That's All Right" at 5pm in the London
(11am Memphis time).
Elvisly Yours will have 50 Elvis
impersonators all dressed for this historic occasion outside our
shop at 233 Baker Street, London NW1 at 5pm singing "That's All
Right" on a double-decker open top bus, then driving through the
West End in one giant, moving Elvis Karaoke Party and at the same
time collecting money for the "Lynda Jackson Macmillan Centre" for
Cancer Support. We want thousands of fans, students, tourists and
office workers on the route to the West End singing along to
"That's All Right" and a medley of Elvis numbers and then there will
be a competition to find the best Elvis in a location to be
announced.
We want the UK celebration to be the
biggest and best in the world !
Be part of
history, finish work earlier or take the day off, come straight from
school or college, catch a bus, boat, train or plane and share your
love for Elvis Presley on July 5th 2004. It is going to be a
glorious, historic musical celebration for Elvis Presley and a day
you will be able to tell your grandchildren about. Bring along all
your family and friends and tell them to pass the word to encourage
their family and friends to join in history being made for our man,
Elvis.
July 5th 2004 5pm, 50th Anniversary of Rock 'n' Roll
Elvisly Yours,
233 Baker Street, London NW1
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Calling all ELVIS
TRIBUTE ARTISTS |
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We are looking for 50 (fifty) Elvis Tribute
Artists to become part of history and support our 50th
Anniversary celebration of the music of Elvis Presley…50 years
of Rock ‘n’ Roll…hence, 50 tribute artists to help raise money
for cancer support.
All Elvis Tribute Artists that
attend this historical occasion on Monday July 5th will be
given a FREE page on the Elvisly Yours website with
photograph(s), details for booking their act with contact
numbers and advertising of their events. There will be further
publicity given on the Elvisly Yours Cyber Newsletter
published each month on the Internet. The Elvisly Yours
website is the most popular Elvis website in Europe with
thousands of hits each week and the Elvisly Yours Cyber Newsletter is read
by over 500 Elvis fan clubs and Elvis websites around the
world and tens of thousands of Elvis Presley fans.
£5,000.00 prize for the best Elvis Tribute
Artist
There will be a competition to choose the very
best Elvis Tribute Artist (ETA) on July 5th 2004 after the “Elvis Moment
in Time” and the winner will get a contract to receive a
minimum of £5,000.00 to perform ten shows (£500.00 personal
fee per show) at a new venue in London, details will be
announced on July 5th. TV, Radio and Press will attend the
5th July 2004 event. Remember, not only will each ETA be given
extensive publicity on the Elvisly Yours website, but they
will be get the chance to win a valuable contract and will be
helping raise money for a Cancer Charity. In addition, Elvisly
Yours will help the winner achieve National and International
media coverage.
We only want professional and
semi-professional ETA's to be onboard the
double-decker London Bus. They must be dressed in a
professional jumpsuit, gold lame suit or '68 Comeback leather
outfit. In the first instance, please send me an email
agreeing to attend our 'Elvis Moment in Time' to: sid@elvisly-yours.com
with brief details about you and where you have performed. We
are looking for ETA’s from anywhere in the world and welcome
any race, colour, nationality or religion to help make July 5th 2004 a
day to remember in London. It will be the biggest Elvis Event
anywhere in the world outside Memphis.
N.B. Elvisly Yours have been working on a major
worldwide project that could give opportunities for ETA's in
the UK for years to come. Only ETA's that support our
Celebration of Elvis' music on July 5th for the 50th
Anniversary of Rock 'n' Roll will be considered for this
project and the winner, of course, will get a £5,000.00
contract and worldwide publicity.
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"Jailhouse Rock the
Musical"
Review of 'Official Opening' and Party, April 19th
2004
Please scroll down...and
PLEASE MIND THE
GAP
We would have loved to have written a
full report on the 'Official Opening' April 19th of 'Jailhouse
Rock the Musical' and the special party after but we weren't invited. We would have
written about the reactions of the media and the audience of
celebrities. We would have interviewed the guests so that all the
tens of thousands of Elvis fans around the world who read this
Newsletter would have got a feel about what an opening night was
like for an Elvis Musical. We even delayed this Newsletter to report
on the Grand Opening. We have been extensively promoting the
Musical for FREE since July 2003 when no one else even
knew it was happening. Each month we featured new details about the
show in our Newsletters and on our website. We have been supportive
throughout when the producers still could not get rights to use the
songs of Leiber & Stoller, particularly "Jailhouse Rock".
Perhaps you could use your own imagination and fill in this
unfortunate gap in our Cyber Newsletter.
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Elvis Presley's Scottish
Ancestry
They say from small acorns grown great
oak trees and so it was with the story about Elvis's ancestry being
traced to Lonmay, Scotland. What started out as a simple PR idea by
the Aberdeen and Grampian Tourist Board became a worldwide
story...such is the power of the name "Elvis Presley".
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What a likeness-Andrew Presley
to his later
heir Elvis Presley ?
Allan Morrison author of the
book, the "Presley
Prophecy"
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Allan Morrison had met Bill Burk in
America, actually in Florida and not Memphis. He read his book
"Early Elvis, the Tupelo Years" and was intrigued by Bill's mention
of Elvis' Scottish ancestry. Being a Scotsman and an eye for a good
story Allan started to do his own research. The mythology was that
Elvis' family had derived from Paisley in Scotland and that somehow Paisley
became Presley over time. It was common for emigrants to the USA to
adopt the name of their home town. Click
here to order Bill Burk's book Tupelo Years.
Allan spent six
years researching the Scottish ancestry of Elvis Presley and
traced the family to an Andrew Presley who married Elsbeth Leg
August 27th 1713 at the Lonmay Church in Aberdeenshire. It was
Andrew's son, also called Andrew, who was forced to flee
Scotland in 1745 at the time of the Jacobite Rebellion
and went to the Americas to settle in South
Carolina. It is Andrew Presley who was Elvis Presley's long
lost relative. Public records prior to 1700 are very had to
find so it was not possible to trace the Presley's back any
further. Allan has speculated that going way back in time
Elvis original ancestors were probably Vikings, particularly
in that area of Scotland where there were many Viking raids
and settlements established.
I had the pleasure of meeting Allan
Morrison in London when he was a special guest on the
"Richard and Judy Show" and I was invited to appear
to discuss his wonderful, new discovery. It was a pity that
another guest, also in the interview, was a jerk and making
fun of Elvis. This guy was a 'miserable sod'. In the
Television Studio you have to sit for several minutes on the
couches waiting for the interview to start. In that time this
guy did not say one word to us, looked like a tramp and was as
nervous as hell. Then it was "lights, camera,
action" and he suddenly became animated and instead of
treating it as a serious discussion was making childish jokes,
e.g. the best Scottish news since the Crankies. He left
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The "Presley Prophecy"
I
asked Allan why he had gone for publicity now when his book, the
"Presley Prophecy" was not yet published. He said he got
an early morning call from an Ian Hainey in the Aberdeen Tourist
Office when some information had leaked about Elvis' Scottish
ancestry. Ian had rented a jumpsuit, picked up Allan and drove to
Lonmay where he invited a few press. This simple idea was picked up
on TV, Radio and Press all over the world, even by a twit called
"Todd Morgan" at Graceland, who according to newspaper
reports threatened little Lonmay that they can't use the name
"ELVIS". Perhaps the twit forgot I defeated EPE Inc in the
UK Courts and anyone can now use the name Elvis Presley in this
country. Allan's book should come out in August and is fiction but
based on the facts surrounding Elvis' ancestry. Look out for details
about the book
in the near future on www.elvisly-yours.com
and we will be publishing the research papers that Allan
kindly loaned Elvisly Yours. There
is now an Elvis tartan but the producers of the tartan must be poor
businessmen because I phoned the company immediately I heard the
news and they have never bothered to return my call or send an email
even though I could give them free publicity to thousands of Elvis
fans in Britain and around the world. We
will keep you informed of new developments about the Scottish Elvis
Story as it unfolds, special events and when the book, the
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$5,000.00 to use the name Elvis Presley We have
been informed by Elvis fan clubs in Canada and America that Elvis
Presley Enterprises demands they pay in advance $5,000.00 to use the
name "Elvis Presley" to promote their Elvis Shows even if
100% goes to charity. In future there will only be shows called the
"KING" and the name Elvis Presley will disappear from the
entertainment world. How stupid can they get at EPE ? Why don't fan
clubs sue them in the US Courts to get their Elvis back from these
maniacs who are destroying the Elvis World? The name Elvis Presley
to describe a show is only descriptive and is not an infringement of
the trade mark "Elvis". I am sure there is one decent
lawyer in the USA who loves Elvis Presley and can take out a lawsuit against
EPE on behalf of US Elvis Fan Clubs and challenge this
ridiculous abuse of monopoly power. EPE Inc must be stopped now before
they destroy all that is good in the Elvis World...a world filled
with love, hope, kindness and universal companionship and now there
is greed and fear !!! |
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Lisa you are killing your father's music legacy...
We have heard from many sources in Memphis and
insiders that Lisa Marie now calls all the shots at EPE. In other
words, if Hovey wants to prevent a show using Elvis' songs or an
Elvis fan club is threatened with legal action because they want to
call their charity show "Elvis" then they must get
permission from Lisa Marie Presley. If this is true it means Lisa is
killing the music legacy of Elvis Presley, her father and she should
hold her head in shame. |
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ELVIS MOMENT IN TIME
All Elvis fans around
the world who read this Cyber Newsletter should make sure to contact
there local radio station and tell them to play at 11am Memphis time on
July 5th, "That's All Right ". Also, tell them about our huge
promotion in Britain on July 5th with 50 ETA's all singing the song at
5pm London time on top a double-decker bus. |
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A BAD ELVIS EXPERIENCE
In past newsletters
and on our website we have described how we were cheated by
Michael Welch of Jamcat Music Ltd over the "Elvis
Experience". He is now facing a lawsuit and trial on June
4th 2004 at the Watford County Court. Sadly, because I was too
trusting and did not make a long term written contract I could
not sue for loss of profits from later shows. Even though we
had a verbal agreement to work together for years it was not
put in writing and is difficult to prove in court. All we can
do is sue for the return of the airfares to Las Vegas for
Juliette and Dani and some other expenses. Michael King
will be a witness for us at the trial and he is also in the
process of suing Jamcat Music Ltd. Not only did Michael not
get paid for the shows in 2002 and 2003 but he even had to pay
for his hotel room, even though Welch got the rooms for free
as part of our marketing deal. If anyone knows of the
whereabouts of Yoev Romem please contact us. Yoev was the
producer and musical director of the show in 2002 and he was
also cheated by Welch.
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GOING
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In
Memory of Bobby Day
and Leighton Sommors
It is a very rewarding experience
going through old photos and files as you come across some wonderful
snaps that bring back great memories.
Two dear
friends who sadly died in 1998 and 1999 were Bobby Day and Leighton
Sommors. Bobby had seen a feature in Elvisly Yours about the Russian
Elvis, Rafik who I discovered in St Petersburg and eventually
brought him to London then took him to Memphis. I had got a free
jumpsuit, 'Burnin' Love' style, for him from a manufacturer in the
States and Bobby ended up buying nine jumpsuits from them and starting a
career as an Elvis impersonator.
Bobby's
real name was Bobby Garrard but he had applied for the Elvisly Yours
Card under his stage name "Bobby Day". He was refused by the
Bank because they could find no record of a Bobby Day at his address.
Since Bobby had helped promote the card at the Trocadero he was upset
and I said I would try and get him a card in his stage name. The Bank,
after my persuasion, eventually gave him a card for "Bobby
Day" and he was delighted. Sadly, two weeks later at the age of 41
he died from a heart attack, this was the same age as his father and
grandfather had died. Bobby
was a real nice guy and was always very accommodating and helped Elvisly
Yours on many promotions and in return we helped him and his career
blossomed.
Leighton
Sommors was the greatest Elvis look-a-like in history and was such a
warm, gentle man who never let his amazing looks go to his head. He was
a very down to earth man who always told me he was the same age as Elvis
and I did not believe him. But, when he died I discovered from his wife
that he was born February 1935 but he looked so young for his age. I
had told Leighton to come down from Manchester where he lived when I was
at the High Court fighting EPE. He came and as a result got
worldwide publicity and his career simply sky rocketed. I did not want
to offend the Judge in the trial nor wanted the media to know so he hid
in the court buildings while the Trial was going on. After the adjournment
on the first day I came out of the High Court to talk to the TV and Press and
who was alongside me, Elvis (or rather his spitting image, Leighton).
The media loved it and we were photographed together...me and Elvis and photos went all over the world.
Sadly,
Leighton also died from a sudden heart attack in his son's arms and I lost
two dear friends in a short period of time but I am sure they are with our Elvis in "Blue Suede Heaven".
In
memory of Jim Kingsley &
Aunt Loraine
After
I was sued by EPE in 1985 I had few friends in America in the Elvis
World, particularly among Elvis friends. Many were too scared
of EPE and kept their distance from me and did not even offer
verbal support. One of the 'close' friends even
criticised me at fan club gatherings during Elvis Weeks. Two people
had always stood by through all my problems with EPE in
America and they were Jim Kingsley and Aunt Loraine. Jim was one of
the nicest guys I ever met associated with Elvis. He would always
come to our hotel to meet the fans on our Memphis Tours and
recounted wonderful stories about life with Elvis in the early '60s.
He did not want to be part of the Memphis Mafia and instead
built his own career as a stunt man. Jim had cameo parts in Elvis'
movies but his real love was working as a stunt man and he
eventually became president of the Stuntman Union in the States.
Aunt
Lorraine was one in a million. Elvis just lover her to bits as she
was so full of life. She would always go to the airport to greet our
Fan Club Tour and give each fan, as they got off the plane, a kiss
and a rose that we had pre-arranged with her. After such a long
journey to be met by Elvis' aunt with a kiss and a rose was
something that always appreciated by the fans. Loraine would always
go to the hotel to meet the fans at our parties and go with us to
night clubs dancing the night away with everyone. You would see her
wheeling handicapped fans around the dance floor to country music in
the local clubs. Sadly, she died from a heart attack just 9 days
after we left Memphis on the tour in 1988 and I believe she knew she
would die because she was in tears as the fans said their goodbyes,
something she never did before and made comments about not be able
to see them again. She was always a good friend to me and someone
who always brought a smile and created fun for everyone around her.
She did spell her name with one 'r' just like Harold Loyd only used
one 'l' and such spelling is common in the South. |
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Bobby , Eileen
Weston and
Leighton at Elvisly Yours' shop Trocadero
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Me and Elvis (Leighton)
in
taxi
outside the High Court
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Jim talking to fans on Elvisly Yours
Memphis Tour 1982
Richard Davis, Bena Monfee, Sid & Jim
Boyfriend Bill, Loraine and Sid when they took me out for a rib
meal
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Aunt
Loraine at Memphis Airport
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DisGraceland and 21 more papers by
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