“More than 17 million adults in the United States have at some time impersonated Elvis Presley, according to a poll released on Monday ahead of the 25th anniversary of the singer’s death.

“The Harris poll found that 71 million Americans over the age of 18 considered themselves Elvis fans, while 70 percent of the adult population had watched at least one of Presley’s 33 movies,” the Independent Online reports.

The online Harris poll surveyed more than two thousand American adults nationwide and the findings were released ahead of the anniversary of the singer’s death on August 16 1977.

As many as 100 000 people are expected to gather near Presley’s Graceland mansion in Memphis to mark the event.

The Harris poll found that one in 10 of those surveyed had already visited Graceland, while one in 20 had seen ‘The King’ perform before his death.

A total of eight percent had at some point tried to impersonate Presley, with men outnumbering women by two to one.

Okay, then. Imagine me in a white, sequin-studded jumpsuit and cape. With muttonchops sideburns, and with my top lip curled. Y’ready? Ahem:

“Thank you, thank y’very much.

“Now if y’all’ll excuse me, ‘s time to go and uh…’shake, rattle, and roll’ my ‘hunka hunka burnin’ love’. If you know what I, uh, mean.

“Too much coffee this mornin’.”*

(Ladies and gentlemen….Elvis has left the seat up…)

*What? Well it sounds fantastic in person. You sure you were imagining me in the cape..? Killjoys.

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