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Australian Rumours

May 17, 2002 | Other
The following story, Gough row cost us Elvis tour, claiming "THE 1975 dismissal of Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam may have cost Australian Elvis fans an audience with the King ..." appeared in the Melbourne Herald Sun on Thursday May 16 and has been the subject of much conversation on talk back radio around Australia. (Gough Whitlam was Australia’s Prime Minister from 1972 to 1975).

Joe Esposito's comment when he was in Australia were that he had no recollection of an offer being made for Elvis to tour Australia as the following story suggests and that he believes the story to be completely untrue.

Source:Elvis Australia