Elvis isn't in the building, but here's how to connect with events and people inspired by the King
and, for the first time, there’s a parallel Virtual Elvis Week planned too. Both events run from Saturday to Aug. 16. Fans turn out every year to share their love of all things Elvis. For the virtual celebration, you pay $39 to join a closed Facebook group to watch past concerts, fresh interviews with bandmates, content from the archives, and a live stream of the annual candlelight vigil.
Chris Maddox, 47, practices one of his parody songs in the closet of his Carlsbad home. The longtime Elvis Presley tribute artist is now writing parody songs about living in quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic., that go something like this: “Hand Spray,” set to Frank Sinatra’s “My Way”; “It Seems I Clean,” set to “I Dreamed a Dream” from the musical “Les Misérables”; and “I Walked the Dog ,” to Bon Jovi’s “You Give Love a Bad Name.”Chris Maddox, in his spirit-of-Elvis mode.
Graceband last played a gig in early February in Solana Beach before bars and restaurants closed. In this case, Elvis has left the building — only temporarily.This Elvis can heal what ails you — with music. Dr. Elvis Francois, an orthopedic-surgery resident at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has made some soulful songs during the crisis. Early in the pandemic he recorded John Lennon’s “Imagine” while a colleague, Dr. William Robinson, played the piano. The video went viral.
Dr. Elvis, as he’s called, and Robinson in April released a four-song album, “Music Is Medicine,” with their versions of “Imagine” and Bill Withers’ “Lean on Me,” to raise funds for COVID-19 relief.
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