Elvis Presley fans on the Border can relive the music when Elvis – An American Trilogy returns to Australia.
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The three-part show, which performed in the North East as part of its last national tour, is back by popular demand and will hit Albury’s Commercial Club on Friday, September 21.
Whatever your favourite Elvis era, fans of the king will be in for a treat, when the concert tour brings three of the world's leading Elvis tribute artists together in one of the most spectacular live productions.
The show takes fans on a journey through the music of Elvis opening with Vic Trevino junior opening with the early Rockabilly sound of the young Elvis.
Gino Monopoli recreates the sound of the movie years with tracks from iconic 1960s films as well as recreating the 1968 comeback TV Special.
The 1970s Las Vegas-era has Greg Miller pulling on the caped white jumpsuit.
“The show is all about just getting Elvis fans together and celebrating this music, and that’s what we all are, Elvis fans,” Miller tells The Border Mail from his Las Vegas home ahead of the return tour.
All three are world leading Elvis performers.
Miller knew Elvis and spoke with him often in his final years, saying he was drawn firstly to the Presley voice and later the two met and became friends.
“I was bitten very early,” he says.
“The first thing I heard was my parent’s 45 of Elvis, on one side was a raw screaming voice of Jailhouse Rock, then the other side was a smooth voice like Dean Martin.
“He had every talent, he was an amazing singer.
“I grew up as a huge fan.”
For almost 20 years Miller has been Las Vegas’ most popular Elvis tribute artist.
“The very first song he sang on television was Shake, Rattle and Roll, a Fats Domino song, and the reason he did it was because he said Fats Domino was the king of rock and roll. He always said Fats was the king,” he says.
“If you’d have told Elvis he would be the king of rock and roll and he would be remembered long after he died, he would have laughed it off. He didn’t know how important he was to the world of music or to the world in general.
“He just thought he was a singer that had gotten lucky. There is so much more to him than meets the eye.”