Elvis Presley, performing in 1977
Photo: AP Photo/File
Elvis never did a world tour, so several members of his backing band are taking the dead Elvis on the road with them.
and musical director for the final decade of his life, and lead guitarist James Burton, as well as some original backing singers and members of his orchestra.
headlined by a dead performer, but did the TCB band ever think of Rock Star: Elvis, perhaps?
"Well," Burton says in a Louisiana drawl, "I know most of the I think it would probably be impossible to find another Elvis. Not in my lifetime, I don't see it happening any time soon.
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famous Elvis impersonator, new INXS frontman J. D. Fortune?
"Haven't heard of him," says Burton, who seems to have recorded with everyone but INXS, including Roy Orbison, John Denver, Johnny Cash, George Harrison, Frank Sinatra, Henry Mancini, the Byrds, the Nelson and the Mamas the Papas.
What is it like performing with a dead frontman, then?
"It's amazing," Burton says.
"You can see what it would have been really like when he sang Love Me Tender. You see, when I'm onstage, I can just close my eyes and I feel him, I close my eyes and play and I can feel him there, you know; he's singing and I'm playing, and it's like he's there."
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