The gospel of Elvis

Sir — Perhaps coincidence or what, but the other day I found a little rag-doll (lucky-bag toy from years ago) and about one-anda-half inches, lying in a corner. When I opened the paper last week — there was Elvis Presley with a replica of same!

Joe Jackson (Sunday Independent, August 6), writing about the 40th anniversary of Elvis’s death, said that Gospel music was a source of spiritual ease to Elvis. I always had the feeling from his song Peace in the Valley that he sang in choir when young.

Sure, I believe when he was found dead in a house with a woman — it was his adored ‘black’ cook, frying banana sambos in lard. He was reading The Shroud of Turin.

I always feel he was spiritual, near to Jesus. He is still in Graceland, I’m sure. RIP. Kathleen Corrigan, Cootehill, Co Cavan