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Hotline to Elvis (Graceland Mix)

by The Cassandra Complex

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To answer the obvious first question: yes, there really was an Elvis Hotline, and it really was at the number 1-900-909-ELVIS.

Lead singer Rodney Orpheus explains: “When we first toured the USA in the late 80s I was awake late one night with the TV on and saw an advert for an Elvis Hotline, so that people who didn’t believe Elvis Presley was really dead could call to report their sightings of him. It led to all sorts of wild conspiracy theories about how he had faked his own death to work with the FBI against the Deep State or that he had been abducted by aliens. The really crazy thing is that many of these proto-conspiracy theories have now been adapted and become mainstream by people like QAnon. It’s a modern myth being invented in real-time as we watch. The advert seemed so crazy and ridiculous that it stuck in my mind ever since, and now seemed like the perfect time to write a song about it.”

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See him flying overhead
See him in loaf of bread

See him at the Taco Bell
See him saving us from hell

Now he's living underground
Now he's driving all around

He's in Memphis Tennessee
He is living next to me

1-900-909
ELVIS
Elvis
Hotline to Elvis

Elvis flew my UFO
Elvis showed me where to go

Elvis comes to me in dreams
Elvis sings to me it seems

He isn’t dead, he’s only sleeping
In Alaska he lies weeping

He’ll return when things are grey
He’ll return to save the day

1-900-909
ELVIS
Elvis
Hotline to Elvis

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released March 3, 2023
Rodney Orpheus: vocals, drums, synthesisers
Andy Booth: guitar
Volker Zacharias: bass guitar
Axel Ermes: synthesisers

Produced by Rodney Orpheus

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