Happy Birthday, Elvis!

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Elvis Presley would have been 80 today. I thought it would be a lot of FUN to celebrate the King’s birthday here and give Elvis a cool birthday present from one of his big fans!

That fan is Damian Lewis 🙂

Damian was Kirsty Young’s Castaway on Desert Island Discs back in November: “Up until I was about the age of 18, I thought, I was Elvis, returned, and spent a lot of my time putting shaving foam, oddly, through my hair and relentlessly coiffing my quiff, and any opportunity getting into my skinny pair of black jeans and my winklepickers and my paisley shirt from Kensington market, and this is Elvis.” (You can hear the entire podcast here and Elvis bit is at 04:34).

Enough said!

Damian first showed he has got what it takes to be the King at the Berkeley Square Ball to benefit the Prince’s Trust in 2005.

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And later he killed it with Elvis’ “All Shook Up” at his 2012 appearance at Jonathan Ross show!

Finally, Damian became the King of Karaoke before he arrives on our screens as the King of England in Wolf Hall! Damian did a brilliant Karaoke to Elvis’ “Burning Love” complete with FUN-tastic dance moves on ICAP Charity Day in December 2014. And I cannot think of a better birthday celebration for the King of Rock’n’Roll other than sharing that hilarious karaoke clip with you all!

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“Cause your kisses lift me higher like the sweet song of a choir” source: thesun.co.uk

So… from one king to another: “Happy Birthday!” 🙂

And, in case you want to sing along Damian, please find the lyrics below. Enjoy!

Burning Love (1973)

Lord Almighty,

I feel my temperature rising

Higher higher

It’s burning through to my soul

Girl, girl, girl

You gonna set me on fire

My brain is flaming

I don’t know which way to go

Your kisses lift me higher

Like the sweet song of a choir

You light my morning sky

With burning love

Ooh, ooh, ooh,

I feel my temperature rising

Help me, I’m flaming

I must be a hundred and nine

Burning, burning, burning

And nothing can cool me

I just might turn into smoke

But I feel fine

‘Cause your kisses lift me higher

Like a sweet song of a choir

And you light my morning sky

With burning love

It’s coming closer

The flames are reaching my body

Please won’t you help me

I feel like I’m slipping away

It’s hard to breath

And my chest is a-heaving

Lord have mercy,

I’m burning a hole where I lay

‘Cause your kisses lift me higher

Like the sweet song of a choir

You light my morning sky

With burning love

With burning love

Ah, ah, burning love

I’m just a hunk, a hunk of burning love

Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love

Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love

Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love

Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love

Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love

Author: Damianista

Academic, Traveler, Blogger, Runner, Theatre Lover, Wine Snob, Part-time New Yorker, and Walking Damian Lewis Encyclopedia :D Procrastinated about a fan's diary on Damian Lewis for a while and the rest is history!

4 thoughts on “Happy Birthday, Elvis!”

  1. Beautiful, beautiful voice, he is gestural, I see him very well in a musical comedy !! As always he would have a phenomenal success since he would be amazing
    Monique

    1. Isn’t it priceless? The king of Karaoke — whatever he does he is the King of THAT! <3 I would LOVE to see him in a musical comedy! After seeing him with the big hat at Ascot Races, I am constantly thinking of Prof Higgins in My Fair Lady --- By George, we did it! 🙂 Happy New Year, Monique!

    1. Thank you! I love your words! <3 And we need you because this is nothing if great fans like you do not visit and read us --- you all make us keep going and going! Thank you for all your support, your great feedback, your reading us, and above all for being a great fan! Happy New Year!!! <3

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