Always felt he was a very poor substitute for Elvis. Seen him a few times live as my friends still like him. The last show he did I went and it what I imagine visiting Lourdes would be, lights dimmed, everyone with these candles swaying, felt it was very creepy. He is stick thin so carries his fashionable clothes well, he is made up and hair died as lots of performers do, but I thought he looked his age despite that.
Felt very sorry for him the way the press and BBC treated him though, that was a disgrace and must have driven him to breaking point.