elvis presley !

[elvisfan247]

 Does anyone know, what was the real reason why Elvis never came to England ?

[Gillbo]

The hamburgers were not to his liking !!!!!

[kempie]

... nor perhaps the toilets?

[andy hughes]

The perceived wisdom is that his manager 'Colonel' Tom Parker was actually ain illegal imigrant to the U.S., and if he left, he would be unable to re-enter the U.S. And since - apart from his National Service - where Elvis went .....

[Cheesefreek]

I also read somewhere that Col Parker was suspected of committing a murder somewhere - was it The Netherlands? and therefore didn't want to be anywhere in Europe.  Maybe something to do with extradition.  Of course all this came out after his and Elvis's death.  I often wonder what Elvis could have done if this grubby leech hadn't snaked his way into his life and fortune.

[Greenbhoy]

His Scottish grandparents tought him history when he was growing up and he refused to go to england out of principle for the hunderds of years they have had Scotland under the cosh.

That is why he only ever came to Scotland.

[Cheesefreek]

That's garbage Greenbhoy.  He landed at Scotland on the way to Germany when doing National Service.  It wasn't up to him.  His Scottish ancestry goes back further than his grandparents - who thought of themselves as southern state Americans.

[Cheesefreek]

Scotland under the cosh?  Another sad Scot with a chip on his shoulder!

[strangedaze]

im not an elvis fan, but to say his early stuff was not rock n' roll.. what is ???