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Back in the 1970s, Elvis Presley and Engelbert Humperdinck were contemporaries and would often bump into each other backstage in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
Speaking exclusively with Express.co.uk in promotion of his new Elvis duet with EMIN, the 87-year-old legend shared fond memories of his old friend, The King of Rock and Roll.<\/p>\n
The singer said: \u201cElvis was a year older than me, so he had a little bit more experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a great character and I admired him a great deal. And I can honestly say that I learned a lot from watching him work on stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was very, very nice, very honest, and very humble and charismatic. And he never took his image seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Asked about their Las Vegas years together, Engelbert spoke of them both going to see each other\u2019s shows. And when the Brit performed at the International Hotel where The King had his residences, he would stay in the Elvis suite at the top of the building on the 30th floor.<\/p>\n
He shared: \u201cIt was just a magical place to be. When he passed away there was a lot of mystery going on up there.\u201d Staying there one night, the singer requested a tape to learn lyrics to a song but then something spooky started happening.<\/p>\n
Engelbert remembered: \u201cWhen we got this tape, I put it in the machine and the machine ate the tape. And I thought to myself, \u2018This is a brand new machine\u2026 I think this is the work of Elvis!\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cI went to bed that night and had the light on and it kept switching off every time I turned it back on. And my hair stood up and I said Elvis, \u2018Why are you doing this to me? I\u2019m your friend!\u2019 But I think he was just making himself known and wanted to say, \u2018Thank you for being in my suite and thank you for being my friend.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Engelbert has a new Elvis cover duet out of Help Me Make It Through The Night with regular collaborator EMIN, who sees both singers as his idols.<\/p>\n
The song is a single from the Azerbaijani singer\u2019s new Elvis covers album Now or Never, which was produced by David Foster, who was once married to The King\u2019s old flame Linda Thompson.<\/p>\n
EMIN said: \u201cThere’s nobody better on this planet than David Foster, to deliver this in a very classical, credible way and for maintaining the DNA of these songs, making them sound contemporary enough to appeal to a young audience. But at the same time, keeping all the beautiful arrangements and strings that were embedded in this music 50, 60 years ago. I think he’s done an absolutely beautiful job executing that.\u201d<\/p>\n
EMIN’s new album Now or Never is out now featuring the single Help Me Make It Through The Night with Engelbert Humperdinck.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] Back in the 1970s, Elvis Presley and Engelbert Humperdinck were contemporaries and would often bump into each other backstage in Las Vegas. Speaking exclusively with Express.co.uk in promotion of his new Elvis duet with EMIN, the 87-year-old legend shared fond memories of his old friend, The King of Rock and Roll. The singer said: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}