My newsagent is currently selling a publication called Elvisly Yours. There's everything here for the Elvis Presley cultist. He is offered a £369 package trip to Memphis ('Free Trip to Tupelo - Welcoming Elvis Party with Close Elvis Friends'); or the more distant economic possibility of a 'life-size cold-cast bronze or copper statue of Elvis' at £25,000. Pure white hand-polished busts of Elvis come in beautiful 'marbelene'. Item G21 in the list is the Memorial Elvis Pillow, a tasselled affair inscribed in Victorian homily-Gothic lettering,

LRB 21 January 1982 | PDF Download