The Latest Breaking News from Elvis Presley

Once upon a long time ago, I was a bored tweenager aimlessly channel-surfing when I was abruptly kicked in the skull by an atomic kablooey of sexiness. I’d stumbled on to the title sequence of Bye Bye Birdie, the 1963 musical satirising the teenybop hysteria incited by Elvis Presley’s army conscription.…

Byron Raphael, who worked as a publicity and management agent, said he set up the illicit liaison between Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe back in 1960, with the pair hooking up for a one night stand at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel

With apologies to Elvis Presley, who is not taking requests these days, I’m a hunk of burning love, not only for my wife, Sue, who doesn’t always think I’m hot stuff, but for wine, which we both (Sue and I, not Elvis) really enjoy.

The world has not been short of Elvis Presley ­impersonators since his tragic death at just 42 in 1977. But there has never been one quite like Austin Butler, 30