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‘Thats The Way It Was’, a fun, energetic Elvis Tribute show dedicated to the sheer brilliance that was Elvis Presley, executed with point blank accuracy by the uniquely talented Chris Hawkins Elvis Impersonator and tribute artist.
An established Elvis Impersonator since 2004, Chris Hawkins Elvis For Hire shows the magic and essence that was Elvis. His breathtaking tribute show combines Elvis's trademark stage presence with his own natural humour. Chris Hawkins gives an electrifying stage performance which shakes the audience to the core and leaves them asking for more.
Elvis Impersonator Chris is often asked if he mimes to the real king - a true compliment indeed!
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"Elvis Impersonators" galore at the Meadow Hall Elvis event that I hosted we had over 20 elvis impersonators, It was so successful I am now offering an Elvis Impersonator/Tribute show with a karaoke and disco , so If you are looking to get all shook-up and fancy having this Elvis Impersonator at your event, give me a call NOW. With over 300 Elvis songs on karaoke a 1 hour Elvis impersonator show and a 60s-70s disco too, this is one elvis impersonator event not to miss.
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Performing his elvis impersonator show for the people of Yorkshire at the Meadow Hall Sheffield pre-concert Elvis Party on the 19th Feb 2010.
BBC Interview…..
Chris was interviewed in the morning by Paulette Edwards on BBC Radio Sheffield regarding his Elvis Impersonator show at The Elvis Pre Concert Show, Meadowhall and the Sheffield Arena Elvis Concert on the same day.
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Elvis Facts You May Be Interested In
ELVIS was born a twin, his brother Jesse was a stillborn baby. He went through life as an only child.
Elvis was his dad Vernon's middle name. His mum Gladys's middle name was Love.
The famous black hair that Elvis had was from a bottle - the real colour of his hair was brown.
His nickname for his willy was Little Elvis.
At the age of around ten years of age he came fifth in a talent contest by standing on a chair and singing the song Old Shep.
In 1947 a local radio station offered the 12-year-old the chance to sing live - but he was too scared to go on.
Elvis received his first guitar when he was only 11 years of age. He wanted a gun but his mum persuaded him to have a guitar instead.
Aged 18 he paid $4 to make his first record, a present for his mum. He sang My Happiness and That's When Your Heartaches Begin.
In 1954 he auditioned for gospel quartet the Songfellows. They said no to Elvis.
The same year a radio DJ played Elvis's version of That's All Right.
It proved so popular he played it another 13 times - but had to tell listeners that Elvis was white, despite the sound of his voice.
His national breakthrough was the 1956 release of Heartbreak Hotel, inspired by a newspaper report of a suicide.
When performing on TV in 1956, host Milton Berle advised Elvis not to use his guitar, saying: "Let 'em see you, son."
Elvis's gyrating hips caused outrage across America. Within days he had been nicknamed Elvis the Pelvis.
A Florida judge called Elvis a "savage" the same year because he said his music was undermining the youth. He was forbidden to shake his body at a gig - but he waggled his finger in protest.
Also in 1956, on the Steve Allen show he was forced to sing Hound Dog to a basset hound. He felt humiliated and shouted furiously backstage.
He played only five concerts outside the US, on a three-day tour to Canada in 1957.
Many think the reason he never toured abroad again was that manager Colonel Tom Parker was an illegal immigrant from Holland and would have been deported if he applied for a US passport.
Colonel Tom (real name Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk) had always had an eye for a quick dollar. He held an incredible power over Elvis - most managers take ten or 15 per cent but by the end of Elvis's career Colonel Tom was taking 50 per cent. Together with extra payments, it meant he was earning more than the singer.
Elvis only ever did one advert - on radio for doughnuts in 1954.
He was 6ft tall and wore size 11 shoes.
Recording Hound Dog in the studio, he demanded over 30 takes.
Elvis bought his mansion Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1957 for $100,000 (£36,000). It was named by a former owner whose daughter was Grace. He made several modifications to the house, including an indoor waterfall.
When recording Are You Lonesome Tonight at 3am, Elvis insisted that the studio lights be lowered to create the right mood. At the end of the song you can hear him bump into a microphone stand.
Performing the song in Las Vegas in 1969, Elvis did one of his occasional lyric changes, from "Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?" to "Do you gaze at your bald head and wish you had hair?" Then he noticed a bald man in the audience, and was reduced to hysterics.
In 1956 he began his film career with Love Me Tender.
His next film, Loving You, featured his parents as audience members. After his mother's death the following year, he never watched it again.
The 1957 film Jailhouse Rock premiered at the Loews State Theatre cinema in Memphis, where Elvis hadworked as an usher.
He was drafted into the US army on December 19, 1957, earning $78 a month and unable to get access to his monthly music income of $400,000.
His 1960 single It's Now Or Never was heard in jail by a prisoner who was so affected by it he vowed to pursue a career in the music industry.
An early assignment was as a tank gunner - until it was realised his hearing was being affected. He was quickly transferred to quieter duties.
He eventually reached the rank of sergeant.
While on military service in Germany in 1959 Elvis met 14-year old Priscilla Beaulieu. Eight years later she would become his wife. At their wedding they danced romantically to his hit Love Me Tender.
Elvis only ever landed in the UK once - a stopover at Glasgow's Prestwick airport in 1960, as he returned from military service. The airport now has an Elvis Bar.
Elvis and Priscilla's daughter Lisa Marie was born in 1968. She grew up to marry Michael Jackson and, later, actor and Elvis obsessive Nicolas Cage. He is said to have been the only person outside Elvis's immediate family allowed to see the singer's Graceland bedroom.
Elvis named one of his private jets after his daughter. It had a blue suede double bed and gold-plated taps.
Priscilla left Elvis in 1972 for karate instructor called Mike Stone (Elvis had introduced the two to each other).
Elvis tried for years to buy the Steinway piano from RCA's Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, where he recorded many of his hits - but the record company refused.
Elvis let good-looking girls, who waited outside Graceland into the mansion. One night there were 152.
In 1992, on the day a commemorative Elvis stamp was issued in the US, many people used it on letters with deliberately invalid addresses so that they would receive it back marked "return to sender", increasing the stamp's value.
His appeal faded in the Sixties. But a 1968 TV special relaunched his career. He did it because when he walked down a busy LA street no one came up to him.
He had a pet chimpanzee called Scatter which liked to look up women's skirts.
Elvis really disliked his famous nickname, saying: "Jesus Christ is the King. I'm just an entertainer."
His entourage were known as the Memphis Mafia. He gave them diamond and gold rings bearing a thunderbolt and letters TCB (Taking Care of Business).
While in the Army he bought his fellow soldiers clothes and TVs - and gave his army pay to charity.
His favourite aftershave to impress the ladies was Brut.
Despite his addiction to prescription medicines, he was very anti-drugs. He wrote to President Richard Nixon asking to be made a Federal Agent at Large in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Nixon sent him a Special Agent badge.
In 1972 Elvis played at Madison Square Garden, his first concert (as opposed to TV performance) in New York city.
Apart from gyrating hips, he had other moves. He was a black belt in karate.
In the Seventies he appeared on stage at a Tom Jones concert in Las Vegas - but his exclusive contract with a rival casino meant he couldn't sing. Instead, he performed his martial arts routines.
His 1973 Aloha from Hawaii concert was the first to be broadcast live by satellite. It was seen by a billion people.
Elvis loved Cadillac cars. In 1975 he was buying several at once when he noticed a woman admiring his own Cadillac. So he bough her one for $11,500.
In 1973 Elvis gave Muhammad Ali a white robe bearing the words People's Champion. Ali wore it for the Ken Norton fight but lost. Ali never wore it again.
Elvis recorded more than 600 songs - but did not write any of them.
His last concert was at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana, on June 26, 1977. His last song was Can't Help Falling In Love With You.
The last movie Elvis saw was a special viewing of The Spy Who Loved Me.
By the time he died he weighed just under 19 stone.
Elvis wore a cross, the Hebrew letter chai, and a Jewish Star of David around his neck, saying: "I don't want to miss out on Heaven due to a technicality."
The jeweled jumpsuits he wore for concerts had names, including Gypsy and Mad Tiger. Some weighed two stone.
He collected statues of the Venus de Milo.
In 1977 Elvis saw a petrol station attendant being attacked by two youths. He got out of his limo and took up a karate stance. The shock of being confronted by the star calmed them down.
At its height his daily food intake was an estimated 94,000 calories a day. An Asian elephant consumes only 50,000.
He loved Fool's Gold Loaf, a hollow loaf filled with a jar of peanut butter, a jar of grape jelly and a pound of bacon. It had 42,000 calories.
The last song he ever sang was Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain, sitting at his piano at home on the night he died.
His last meal was four scoops of ice cream and six chocolate chip cookies.
Elvis was a big Monty Python fan. His favourite film was The Holy Grail. It was in his video recorder when he died.
He died on August 16, 1977, after collapsing on the toilet. He was found by girlfriend Ginger Alden.
He was buried next to his mother in Memphis's Forest Hill cemetery. After an attempt to steal his body, they were both reburied in the grounds of Graceland.
In 1977 there were 170 Elvis impersonators. By 2002 there were 85,000. At that rate of growth, by 2019 a third of the world's population will be Elvis impersonators.
Elvis Impersonators include black Elvises, disabled Elvises, Jewish Elvises, Greek Elvises and child Elvises. A Mexican one is called El Vez. Elvis Herselvis is a lesbian one.
Elvis is the eighth most popular celebrity name for dogs in the UK .
Elvis still regularly tops Forbes magazine's list of the highest-earning dead celebrities. Last year his estate's income was $55million.
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