Elvis Lives

PULL on your blue suede shoes and start practising your lip curl – the search is on for the best Liverpool Elvis. Fans of the King are invited to take part in a national competition, Britain’s Best Elvis 2007, to find the most convincing impersonator. The Merseyside heat will take place at Southport Theatre on April 21 and Elvises are expected to try out their crooning and hip-swiveling gyrations on a panel of judges. Lovers of Elvis, male and female and of any age, will get the chance to battle it out for three places in the One Night Of Elvis: The Return To Memphis show to take place that night. The audience will pick a winner to go to the UK grand final in Blackpool in June, where they will battle it out for a place in the international final in Memphis, USA, in August. The competition, organised by the Official Elvis Presley Fan Club of Great Britain, kicks off at 1pm, with the show to follow at 7.30pm. Todd Slaughter, who has run the club for 40 years, said: “It is great fun. We want to hear from Elvis’s with a Merseyside accent – not a fake Memphis one. We’d love to see female Elvis’s and kids too. “Elvis is a great communicator and is still inspiring people 30 years after his death. People adore his music. There is a huge appetite and audience for Elvis even after all these years. “When we have organised prev-ious searches we have been inundated with Elvis’s. People have to be prepared to sing one Elvis song, without backing, for the judges. It is a bit like X-Factor but without the Simon Cowell cynicism. “We are looking for someone with a great voice and personality. We know people will turn up in sunglasses and wigs and jumpsuits that have been made for them. “It is a really good opportunity for our winner to compete for a nice holiday to Memphis.” Are you Merseyside’s best Elvis? If so contact Mary Murtagh on 0151-472 2504 or email: mary murtagh@liverpoolecho.co.uk www.atouchofelvis.co.uk