Elvis played Ottawa
and half of Parliament attended this concert instead of going to work
Elvis interviewed by Mac Lipson from CKOY radio backstage before Elvis' two shows - Elvis makes a political statement about the only way that the USA stopping people having a nice time is by turning communist...
Clips of the concert:
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.2892575
articles:
https://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/pi ... ril-3.html
Gord Atkinson remembered Elvis unable to leave his dingy converted hockey dressing room because of the mobs outside the building, sitting quietly, eating a plain cheese sandwich, in between shows when he interviewed him before he introduced him onstage for the evening performance. Gord hosted a weekly program for teenagers CFRA called the Campus Corner where they had conducted a big rating contest to determine the most popular recording artist of the year and Elvis won by an overwhelming majority of votes.
After the interview Gord presented Elvis with a scroll on behalf of all the listeners of radio show.
