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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.

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.

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 has finally found true love.

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.

 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 their favourite Elvis song in duet?

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.