Published: August 17, 2018
It was the world’s first memorial erected after Presley’s death and the only official monument outside the US. But Presley never visited Melbourne, or even Australia – so what is it doing here?
Every year on the anniversary of Elvis’s death, Wayne Hawthorne, the president of the Elvis Presley Fan Club of Victoria, gets up early in the morning and heads to the Melbourne General Cemetery to cleanse of “promotional rubbish” the memorial to the singer he commissioned 41 years ago.
“People try to make a buck out of Elvis – ‘We’ve got a function on here at this hotel’, blah blah blah,” Hawthorne says. “These people have nothing to do with the club who built the monument; they’re just trying to make money out of this time of year.”
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