Thursday, January 7, 2016

'It just opens my heart': Presley fans go loco as they board the Elvis Express

Steph Harmon joins the great, good and gold-rimmed in Sydney on their way to join lookalikes at the 24th Parkes Elvis festival and a week of ‘Fun in Acapulco’

Wearing a bright turquoise V-neck jumpsuit with gold-studded detailing and an enormous white plastic belt, Ken Keith is in his element.

Keith, the mayor of Parkes in western New South Wales, is standing on platform 1 at Sydney’s Central Station amid a throngs of Elvis fanatics and the people who love them. In just over an hour – after photos, speeches and a series of tributes performed on a makeshift stage in the station’s main foyer – the costumed Elvii assembled will board the “Elvis Express” behind him, departing Sydney for the 24th annual Parkes Elvis festival.

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