Help us choose NEW designs for Elvis
t-shirts,
jackets and cushion covers
This year Elvisly Yours will be licensing
many more companies to produce new products that will be
available
in the shops in Britain. When we license companies to use the
"Elvisly Yours" logo and our images or photographs of
Elvis we often
buy the product as well from the licensee. We don't have
enough space in our shop at 233 Baker Street, London NW1 to
sell all
designs of new products so we would like your help in deciding
what
are the best designs we should sell directly from Elvisly
Yours.
Below are four designs that will be
available as t-shirts in British shops from the Spring but only
two
designs will be sold through Elvisly Yours initially as
t-shirts.
However, the manufacturer will supply us with transfers that we
hope
to print on jackets and cushion covers. We would like as many
fans
as possible to help us chose the best TWO
designs:
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STYLE: LOVE ME TENDER

STYLE: ELVIS LIVES
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STYLE:
ELVIS THE KING
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STYLE: ELVIS IN THE MOVIES |
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Please send us your choice of the best designs.
Click on link: new
t-shirt design suggestion and write your favourite
two
designs from: A) Elvis in the
Movies B) Elvis the King C) Love Me
Tender D) Elvis Lives.
Thank you...
By the early Summer we will
have a range of classic men's and women's casual shirts and
blouses
as this week we will complete a massive licensing deal.
The material for some of the designs will also be available to
make
dresses, jackets, hats or even curtains. There will also be
Elvisly
Yours licensed bedspreads, duvet covers, sheets, pillow cases,
lamp
stands. There will also be new playing cards with each card a
different photo of Elvis, a great collector's items and it will
look
superb
framed.
Hopefully, by the end of the
year there will be dozens more Elvisly Yours products available
in
record and gift shops, chain stores, catalogues and from
shopping
channels, as well as directly from us. You can be sure that
product
design will be of the highest quality, with great images and
photos
Elvis.
Elvisly Yours has survived these past 28 years
only by
selling our fabulous range of Elvis souvenirs to fans all over
the
world. Please to continue to support us by buying our Elvis
memorabilia. Our
Elvis products will now be much more readily available in
Britain through chain stores at first and then the rest of the
world, but sadly not in
the USA.

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THANK YOU!
Maureen and I would like to thank all the fans who
wrote to
us in response to our last Newsletter and the feature
about
Maureen's successful battle against cancer. We hope it
inspired other fans suffering from this awful disease
knowing
that it can be beaten. Treatments and drugs are
getting
more and more sophisticated and with the correct diet,
strong
mental attitude and support of family and friends success
rates are forever increasing. Just simple things like drinking
plenty of 'green' tea, eating tomatoes and lots of green
vegetables helps with the break down of toxins in the
body and
prevents cancer and helps in fighting the
disease.
Again we include the book that all cancer victims
should
read to help them in their fight. If you, any family
member or
friend has cancer you should read this book. It is a
great
inspiration and is the most practical book in the world
in the
battle against cancer.
ISBN number 0-0542968-0-X. The last contact address
we
had: enquiries@iconmag.co.uk
or try http://tinyurl.com/9pz52
or
Tel: 44-(0)1280-815166 fax:
44-(0)-824655 |
ELVISLY YOUR RESTAURANTS

The search goes on
for investors for "Elvisly Yours
Restaurants" and next week we have an agent
in
the Middle East who is negotiating for several
branches of the Restaurants in major capitals of
the
Middle East. In London, it seems that the effect
of
the bombs of 7/7 has had a serious effect on new
investment in Central London and this is
affecting our
efforts to find investors. For example, stores in
Covent Garden are showing a drop of 30% or more
on
turnover since the bombs. There are international
advertising campaigns to attract tourists back to
London but it is British tourists that are
avoiding
London the most.
It will cost at
least £100,000.00 to set up a share scheme to
advertise to the general public for shares and
discussions are ongoing to find a financial
partner to
meet those costs. It just takes time when you are
trying to raise £4 million for one Restaurant and
there is the possibility that we will open a
Restaurant overseas first, where building and
rental
costs are far lower than in London. Wherever the
first
Restaurant is open in the world very quickly
after
others will follow. With any project the first
step is
the most difficult but once you are up and
running the
project builds its own momentum and quickly
starts to
develop and expand. We will keep you informed.
Many
fans that visit our Shop at 233 Baker Street,
London
NW1 promise to invest in the Restaurant if they
win
the Lottery and we are still waiting for that
Elvis
Jackpot winner to come forward.
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Is Lisa
Marie Presley a Secret
US Agent?
An agent for Lisa Marie
announces she has got married to her guitarist
Michael Lockwood on January 22nd in Kyoto, Japan.
This major news story is
kept from the public until the White House
announces
President Bush will invite Japanese Prime Minister
Junichiro Koizumi to the States and plans to take him to
Graceland. Elvis fans will know PM Koizumi is a huge Elvis fan and
our spies tell us he was invited to Lisa Marie's
wedding
and sang a duet with her. Elvis' "Don't Cry
Daddy"
that will be released on her next album.
Since the US has one
of the largest trading deficits in its history,
White
House aides thought they could use a bit of 'Elvis
power' to persuade the Japanese to stop selling
their computers and cars to the US and for the Japanese
to import Lisa Marie Presley records
instead.
To cover
her tracks as a top US Agent Lisa Marie decided to
get
married in Japan to make everything look kosher,
even
having a typical Japanese style wedding.
Just like her dad, it
is believed, Lisa Marie also collects police
badges. We are
told in return for doing her patriotic duty Bush
presented her with an FBI badge to follow the
tradition
started by President Nixon when he presented an FBI
Badge to Elvis. No doubt, some time in the future
Riley
Keough Presley will be also be given an FBI badge
by US
President Hilary Clinton.
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Interesting facts
about the weddings of Lisa Marie Presley- at her
second
marriage, to Michael Jackson the best man was her
ex-husband's brother. The best man at her most
recent
wedding was her ex-husband Danny. Both are
Scientologists. I haven't discovered who was best
man at
her wedding to Nicholas Cage.
I wonder what Elvis
would have thought about his daughter's love life?
We wish
her the best of health and happiness and hope she
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Colonel
Parker BBC Radio Documentary
For years Colonel Tom Parker has been
portrayed as a
"baddie" by the media, most Elvis fans and most of
the
Memphis Mafia. There was a book out by Alana Nash that was a
'hatchet job' on the Colonel painting him mostly black. She
failed
to interview most of the people closest to Colonel Parker.
But now
some of the record is starting to be set straight and the BBC
have
produced an excellent Radio documentary that shows a very
different Colonel Tom Parker.
Over the past
few years I have been fortunate to meet people who were close
to
him and they give a very different image to the public
persona. I
was privileged to meet Al Dvorin, Charles Stone and Ed
Bonja and they all
worked closely with the Colonel and had great respect for
him. Al
worked with Colonel Parker from 1955 until Elvis' death in
1977.
He only had praise for the Colonel and was one of his close
friends. I don't know whether Al's book that he was writing
before
his sudden death (and
nearly finished) will ever be published but if it is it will
show
the 'real' Colonel, the private man fans and the public never
knew. Years ago I was told that Jerry Schilling and Joe
Esposito
had permission from the Colonel to write his biography but it
never happened. Perhaps this excellent documentary will help
you understand
Colonel Tom Parker, the man instead of the myth :
www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio2_aod.shtml?radio2/r2_parker
There
has been many cute stories I have heard about the Colonel and
his
negotiating skills. In the early days I believe he was
brilliant
for Elvis and help to make him a worldwide star. The Colonel
was
an awful time-keeper and I believe, deliberately, as part of
his
bargaining methods. He had a business meeting arranged with
all
the top directors of RCA. He kept them waiting hours and when
he
finally arrived with Tom Diskin, his right hand man, he
walked into
the boardroom holding a black felt bag with drawstrings.
Carefully, he opened the bag and took out a crystal ball and
waved
his hands slowly but repeatedly in a circular motion over the
crystal ball and said "I see $1million for me and $1
million
for my boy". He closed the bag and promptly left the
building leaving the RCA directors with their mouths' open. In
those days $million deals were unheard of but the Colonel got
exactly what he wanted. In the early years after Elvis had
just
found fame he received a phone call from a TV company wanting
Elvis on their show. He said it would cost them $5,000.00 and
they
were elated and agreed the fee. But, he followed the offer up
with
$5,000.00 to walk on the set and $95,000.00 to walk off.
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WHY CAN'T THEY GET IT RIGHT
AT EPE?With almost unlimited
finance now at EPE
and its owner CKXE
valued at about $1.2 billion you would think they would be
pulling
out all the stops to promote major Elvis Events in Memphis to
attract the fans and the general public. After
all, the new owner Bob Sillerman controlled most of the major
Concert Venues in the US so he would have had close working
relationships with major stars. According to Bill Burk, on a
recent
Friday afternoon there were only three cars in the Graceland
car
park just before what should have been a busy
weekend. Plans for 2007 are for another Elvis Virtual
Concert in Memphis for the 30th
Anniversary of Elvis' death. Far better would be to invite
world
stars that love Elvis and let them sing duets with Elvis and
the
show be in aid of
charity. Modern technology could have Elvis singing a duet
with any star, just like he did with Lisa Marie at the
Memphis
Concert in 1997. Just imagine big stars like Elton John,
Bruce
Springsteen, Justin
Timberlake, Madonna, Robbie Williams, Paul McCartney and
Meatloaf
all on stage together, all jamming with Elvis as well as
singing
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I had hoped for great imagination
and great
vision from Bob Sillerman and his new team. But, he has kept
the
same old cronies on the payroll with their lack of vision and
just
thinking of ways to line their own pockets. Please, Mr.
Sillerman, 'SACK
JACK' and start a new beginning for Elvis fans so they will
again
be encouraged to go back to Memphis and Graceland. |
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Exclusive SACK JACK badges from
Elvisly
Yours
Wear your SACK JACK buttons with pride
and
send out a strong message that you have had enough of the
old
style management of EPE and want change to come in the
Elvis
World after so many years of hurt, aggravation, pain and
intimidation caused by Soden and his cronies.
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SACK
JACK & HIT THE ROAD badges available
from Elvisly Yours
4 badges £3.95plus £1.00
p&p (order box)
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VOTE ELVIS t-shirt
£10.95
p/p
UK 2.00, Eu £3.75,Ov £5.75
Sorry no longer stocked
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VOTE ELVIS T-SHIRT A BIG
HIT
IN FLORIDAMy
brother-in-law Malcolm Chesler always wears the popular Elvisly
Yours, "VOTE ELVIS" t-shirt almost every day whilst
he is
Florida for the winter break from Toronto, Canada. He is a keep
fit
freak and is out every day jogging and working out. He was in
the
Canadian basketball team many years ago and is still a
basketball
coach in Toronto. He
always wear our VOTE ELVIS t-shirt and gets hundreds of
complimentary comments. The back of the t-shirt has a slogan
"Don't Blame Me I Voted Elvis" and as he is
running around
he gets cars stopping and honking their horns. An Elvis Presley
presidency is regarded much more highly than that of the
current
Bush Presidency even though our Elvis has been dead for 29
years. If
you order the "VOTE ELVIS" t-shirt you get a free
manifesto that is more valuable than the shirt (sorry not
available
to US residents). |
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Raised
On
ELVIS! ELVIS! ELVIS!
book by
Sandi
Pichon
£12.95
p/p
UK 2.50, Eu £5.00,Ov £7.50

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NEW ELVIS
PILLOWCASE
 D20. Elvis pillowcase
£8.95
p&p UK £1.50, Eu
£3.00,
Ov £4.50
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 Elvis
sunglasses GOLD £8.95 p&p UK
£1.00, Eu
£2.00,
Ov £3.00

 Elvis sunglasses SILVER
£8.95
p&p UK £1.00, Eu
£2.00,
Ov £3.00

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First a free DVD
of 'Loving You' then gutter journalism from the Daily
Mail
How the Daily Mail
could go from delighting Elvis fans one day to making
them
stark raving mad the next day must be a first in UK
journalism. There was a very heavy advertising campaign
by the
"Daily Mail" in Britain to launch a free copy of the DVD
of
'Loving You' on Saturday February 4th to be followed by a
whole week of an Elvis Special in the paper. Elvis fans were
delighted and a record 3 million copies of the paper were
sold
that Saturday. It was probably the most successful
newspaper
promotion in the history of British papers. Of course,
fans
were all excited to buy the papers the following week
until
they were shocked to discover the content of the so
called
"Elvis Files" by David Jones.
It seems the startling, new
investigation of Elvis was based on a quick glance at
Albert
Goldman's book, "Elvis". Not only was the Daily Mail
'Elvis
Files' factually incorrect and full of rumours it stated
Elvis
had sex with his mother and described Elvis as a "Bloated
Freak Show"...very nice !
I spent 25 years trying to get the
media to comment on the real Elvis, the Elvis we all know
and
love as the greatest entertainer the world has ever seen.
Finally, for the 25th Anniversary of his death Elvis was given
the respect and dignity he deserves as a one man
revolution
that changed the world forever. I was so pleased and so
proud
that Elvis had achieved the tabloid recognition he
deserved
and now this Daily Mail crap. Apparently, the author of
the
garbage, David Jones, was described as "reporter of the
year".
Elvis fans will think the only suitable place on this
planet
is the "Davie Jones Locker" for David Jones. Why the
Daily
Mail should want to insult the same Elvis fans who bought
their paper, in many cases for the first time, with such
rubbish is beyond me. In 1981 when Charlie Hodge was in
Britain to unveil our life size statue of Elvis the Daily
Mirror serialized Goldman's book. I immediately phoned the
"Daily Star" and following interviews with Charlie ran a
competing feature all week entitled "We Love Elvis"! They
received 14,000 letters thanking them while the Mirror lost
thousands of readers.
You can email the Editor of the
Daily Mail at letters@dailymail.co.ukand the
telephone
number to talk to the Editor or David Jones is
020-7938-6000. Did you know, if you call
a national newspaper and ask to reverse the charges they
normally will in case you have a big story for
them?
You can write:
Daily Mail, Northcliffe House 2 Derry
Street Kensington, London W8 5TT

Elvis & Colonel

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Jonathan Rhys-Meyers' Golden Balls Award for Elvis Mini
Series
On flicking the channels late at night recently
I came
across the CBS Elvis Mini Series, Part 2. I had no
idea
this was on one of the Sky Movie Channels. I had
seen no
pre-publicity on TV or in the papers and the film
was
half way through when I switched over. I had to
watch it
after my comments about it in our last Newsletter.
Surprise, Surprise, Jonathan 'Golden Balls' was
half-decent and not the complete jerk I had
anticipated.
At certain angles he even looked a little like
Elvis and
his accent, although not perfect was passable for
an
Irishman. After the massive hype in the USA
prior
to the series, in the UK there has be no
promotion.
It was very strange watching the other
characters play people I
know personally, like Charlie Hodge, Joe Esposito,
Larry
Geller to name a few. The actors not only looked
nothing
like them they had none of the mannerisms or voice
of
the people they supposed to be playing. The Colonel
Parker actor was totally unconvincing and the
Priscilla
actress just a female wimp. I am sure the script
was
pure fabrication and I imagine most of the dialogue
was
made up. Did CBS get clearance from all the living
characters to use their name, image and likeness
and had
they any input for the script?
I cannot believe the dialogue between the
Ann-Margaret character
and Elvis. By all accounts she was not willing to
abandon her own career for Elvis and that was the
cause
of the split rather than Elvis leaving her as was
portrayed in the mini-series. I only saw about
thirty
minutes of the film and it was that exciting and
engrossing that I fell asleep just after the
wedding. I
will have to watch both films part 1 and Part 2
before I
can give an accurate review.
What is
fascinating on the CBS website it states,
"Presley's master recordings will be heard for
the
first time in a biographical film". When you
consider all the films that have been done on
Elvis'
life, even those commissioned by EPE they have not
used
Elvis master recordings. WHY?? Because, EPE were in
litigation with RCA/BMG and clearance could not be
agreed. EPE even had to use Ronnie McDowell for one
of
their TV projects instead of Elvis; that is how
ridiculous is the management of EPE. Ronnie
McDowell's
voice was also used for "Elvis the Movie"
with
Kurt Russell. Of course, hearing Elvis' voice is a
big
plus for the Movie. Even if you close your eyes you
can
still hear the voice of Elvis in between making
cups of
tea or coffee when the mostly banal script is
spoken.
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