i read about it in tonight's standard. apparently neither gentlemen left the confines of their black cab. it was literally a whistle-stop tour. tommy steele had also promised to take it to his grave, but alas had to explain away the leaked source of info.

...that we don't have this from Tommy Steele himself but from Bill Kenwright, the man he allegedly told it to.
Sounds to me like a tall tale told at the end of a long night in the pub. If Tommy Steele had really been sworn to secrecy at the time then surely Presley's death thirty years ago would have released him from it? And have you ever heard of a secret about a pop star being kept secret all that time?

It's rare for celebs to keep secrets, even gentlmanly old guys, especially monumental ones like this.

They can't all be Neil Aspinalls.

actually went on the town with Harry Webb.
Keep it quiet.

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/who-believes-then

Here and here

...ever.

Elvis songs about London:

It's Now Or Neasden
Blue Moon of Kenton
Hearts of Wealdstone
Limeouse Rock

I'll get my coat, etc.

Hehe

I just can't help Neasdon.

Little (Seven) Sister.

Burning London (a hunk, a hunk of etc)

Viva Las Victoria

that the R&M show in question is actually a recording originally scheduled for broadcast on April 1st this year?

Edgware Of Reality

Tooting Frutti

When My Blue Moon Turns To Golders Green Again

Acton Town Is Paradise

Doncha Think It's Temple

Blue Moon Of Kenton

The Oxford Circus Is Moving On

Willseden Heart

Euston Square (Baby I Don't Care)

Barbican Let's Play House

Aldgate In Love

Little Swiss Cottage On The Hill

You Gave Me A Morden

Bank Hunk Of Love

There's A Honky Tonk Angel (But It's Not In Upper Street)

Archway You Want Me

The Gospel Oak Medley

Long Blackhorse Limousine

Only The Streatham Survive

A Little Bit Of Bethnal Green

Trying To Get To Waterloo

Mansion House Over The Hilltop

I already have my coat on.

That's my fave.

And 'Return to Selhurst'.

You ain't never jugged a hare and you ain't no friend o' mine.

A Little Less Camden Town, A Little More Acton

By The Time I Get To Finchley

Burnt Oak Love

Hainault Hotel

Blue Moon of Kentish Town

Are You Loughton Tonight

Blueberry Hillingdon

I Washed My Hands in Mudchute Water

In The Gants Hill

Write To Me From Neasden

You Can't Say No In Acton Central

... the Pearly King of Rock and Roll?

at Tommy Steele's when I was about 10. He entertained me with a spectacular display of precision gobbing afterwards, to my mother's bemusement, but never once mentioned this.
And what is this 'R&M' show?

Radcliffe (Mark) and Maconie (Stuart)

Many thanks. Helps to keep up with the youngsters if one knows one's radio shows. Quite like that Maconie chap, but thought some of his recent TV appearance patterned shirts were a bit, you know, young for him.

would they want to keep it a secret anyway? What's the big deal?

I think it is true, as Tommy Steele was quoted as saying he was disappointed it had come out.

By the way, the mention of John Lennon airport in another thread and its slogan, and of Prestwick in this one, reminds me that Prestwick's slogan (and it's written absolutely everywhere in the terminal) is "Pure Dead Brilliant", an awful phrase used in the West of Scotland to mean really rather good. How embarrassing is that?

The last place I want to see the word "dead" is a bloody airport.

Today we were called upon to believe one of the great Merseybeat myths: apparently he, Paul & George would walk from the Liverpool Institute -their school - during the lunch hour to buy Arthur Alexander records from sailors off the American ships. "As if" as they say. Good excuse to give this an airing though . . .

...for posting this song. I enjoyed listening to that.

... 'cos Arthus Dent and Ford Prefect saw him singing in the "Domain of the king" burger bar. He presumably got there on the famous bus that was later abandoned on the moon.