30 years since Elvis died

[Alan Dale]

The King has been dead for thirty years today.

I'm hosting an Elvis day on the radio station at my local old folks home.

Any requests or dedications?

[mockney piers]

Return to Sender?

[Alan Dale]

...that was Calling Elvis by Mark Knopfler's Dire Straits. Smashing. This is Bonnie Tyler with Total Eclipse of the Heart....

[Asset]

ha ha - mobile DJ

[capt_birdseye]

Oliver's army please.

[Alan Dale]

.....Sure- I just played Good Year for the Roses and I've got a couple of Shakin' Stevens and Cliff Richard songs to do first...

[mockney piers]

Ooh Ooh, Africa by Toto!

[Alan Dale]

There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do to make me play that today. Unless you can explain the link.

For now it's Celine Deon with My Heart Will Go On...

[bagpuss78]

Burning love!

[Alan Dale]

... right after Fine Young Cannibals...

[*Bob*]

99 Red Balloons. The original version (in German), please.

[smith]

I was in Canada on this day thirty years ago. I was absolutely shocked and distraught when I heard the news as I'd always believed I'd marry Elvis one day and that was as near as I got (well I was very(ish) young at the time! Suspicious Minds please.

[*Bob*]

Smith.. you should have set your sights on Jerry Lee Lewis instead. You might have been in with a chance then.

[smith]

ho ho! I wasn't that young!

[Alan Dale]

...That was Nena reminding us of the fragility of the stand-off during the cold war. Not sure what Elvis would have made of that. This is UB40 with I can't help falling in love with you from my favourite film and forerunner to Channel 4's Big Brother, Sliver..

[capt_birdseye]

Boston - More than a Feeling please.

[lozzyloz]

I've just seen Elvis enjoying a beer with Paris at The Bishop;-)

[Brendan]

I thought he lived in a caravan with Lord Lucan on the moon? Perhaps that is what those lights in the sky were.

[Jah Lush]

Hey Alan, well done...you're playing some right crap for the old folks today. But as a man who worships at the Presleytarian Church of Elvis The Divine may I suggest you play Kirsty McCall's There's A Guy Works Down The Chipshop Swears He's Elvis, followed by some great stuff from The Pelvis himself like - Marie's The Name, His Latest Flame or Heartbreak Hotel and Always On My Mind. It'll be a good tonic for oldies. Cheers!

[mockney piers]

Ooh, how about A Century of Elvis by Belle and Sebastian.

Love the last line "I used to think my dad was Elvis, but I haven't told him that, I haven't told my dad either"

[capt_birdseye]

Elvis Impersonator, Blackpool pier. Manics innit.

[Keef]

What about "Camberwell"... Sorry, I mean "In the ghetto"?

[Brendan]

lol >:D

[Alan Dale]

....That was the Petshop Boys with Suburbia for an anonymous 'numpty' calling from Sydenham. This is Morrisey Last of the Famous International Playboys. Definitely not for the guy living with his mum in Sydenham....

[Keef]

Touche.

And for the people of Camberwell "Heaven knows I'm miserable now"...