But David Irlam is keen to point out that he's not Elvis, he's Pelvis! Why? "Because I'm only little, I'm Elvis from the waist down! I'm Pelvis!" he says. He may only be half the size but there are no half measures when it comes to impersonating the man from Memphis who is said to be among the top three best selling artists of all time.
Irlam, 63, and originally from Norris Green, can sing and move to a catalogue of 120 Elvis songs and admits that some shows can last for up to four hours, with no two performances ever the same.
He said: "You've got to keep changing. If you're a performer, once you've performed you can't keep doing the same thing. I've got to bring something new all the time."
Irlam has had an eventful life. He lived in Australia for most of it after his family emigrated in the 1960s. He worked in TV and managed bands before returning to Britain in 1999. He is a close friend of Dick Matthews who photographed The Beatles in those early Cavern Club days.
He has been working as Pelvis for the past year doing parties, functions, weddings, and all manner of events and he explains the ongoing fascination with Elvis over 30 years after his death: "He was just so unique. Elvis was a human being who showed himself as what we all wanted to be, just normal and natural."
But it is not just Elvis that fascinates Irlam he is an articulate, soft-spoken man who says: "I'm an ideas person". He's written scripts and plays and runs a production company called Script2Stage that aims to give talented people the chance to get their skills on stage.
But his passion for Elvis is irrefutable when he talks about Presley's early music which has inspired him: "I was a teenager then and I think you're affected by the music you hear at that time. When he used to record at Sun studios...you could never get back to that rawness he had then."
A passionate fan and a passionate performer Pelvis is ensuring that, in Liverpool, the legend of Elvis lives on.
