Okay! Hold off rewriting those history books for a second! A close friend of Elvis Presley is disputing claims that he once made a secret sightseeing tour of London.
As we reported last week, theatre producer Bill Kenwright let slip in an interview for BBC Radio 2 that The King once came to London for a sightseeing tour with fellow singer Tommy Steele in 1958, when Elvis was 23, and the two singers, with Presley's then soon-to-be-wife Priscilla, took in the Houses Of Parliament and Buckingham Palace.
Asked to confirm the visit, Steele later said: "I swore never to divulge publicly what took place and I regret that it has found some way of 'getting into the light'. I can only hope [Elvis] can forgive me".
However, Lamar Fike, a close friend of Elvis' who was posted to Germany with him when they were in the US Army, says that the trip never happened. He told BBC News: "My apologies to Tommy, but it did not happen. I was with him the whole time. I got there two days after he got there. He was confined to base. Had he gone to England, I'd have been there".
Fike has written a soon-to-be-published book about his time with Elvis (presumably with no mention of London in it), entitled 'An Uncommon Journey'.