Elvis Presley Unravelled
…..Last Concert Outside USA 1957
On 31 August 1957 Elvis Presley gave his last concert performance outside the USA, at the Empire Stadium in neighbouring Vancouver, Canada.
PODCAST – Elvis’s Last Concert Outside USA
This is the podcast of Derek Shelmerdine‘s Elvis Presley Unravelled guest appearance, on Steve Chelmsford’s Mop Tops and The King radio show.
A one-minute slice of Elvis Presley history…
Elvis’s last concert outside the USA
For the Rock’n’Roll Unravelled extract – for this story
…taken from the book Rock’n’Roll Unravelled
On 31 August 1957 Elvis gave his last concert outside the USA. The gig was just over the border in Canada at Vancouver’s Empire Stadium.
The Concert posters also billed The Jordanaires and The Bill Black Combo.
The over-enthusiasm of the 20,000 fans in attendance caused the show to end prematurely.
Music critic for the Vancouver Province, Ida Halpern, described Elvis’s performance as “an artificial and unhealthy exploitation of the enthusiasm of youth’s body and mind … One could call it subsidized sex.
Extract from Rock’n’Roll Unravelled
This podcast is based on one of the extracts from Derek Shelmerdine’s book Rock’n’Roll Unravelled.
With its unique three-part structure, the book tells the story of rock’n’roll from its roots to mid-1970s punk.
TO BUY – a signed copy of Rock’n’Roll Unravelled
Guest on the Mop Tops and The King Radio Show
Derek Shelmerdine presents the feature segments Elvis Presley Unravelled and The Beatles Unravelled on Steve Chelmsford’s weekly the Mop Tops and The King radio show.
Derek is a fortnightly guest on Steve’s show.
The MTK network of over 75 radio stations around the world carries the Mop Tops and The King show. This means that every day, someone, somewhere in the world is broadcasting the Mop Tops and the King show
For the broadcast time for each station – check out the weekly schedule. (The times in the weekly schedule are Eastern Time – the UK is five hours ahead.)
The Mop Tops and the King show is all about the music, lives and times of The Beatles and Elvis Presley.
For all the previous editions of…
The Beatles Unravelled and Elvis Presley Unravelled
First Broadcast – Last Concert Outside USA
This show was first broadcast 2-8 July 2021 on the MTK network of radio stations around the world.
