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Here's something I found out recently. The reason Elvis Presley never toured overseas is because Col Tom Parker wasn't a U.S. citizen and he was afraid (among other things) that he wouldn't be allowed back in the country and would lose his "meal ticket".
"Elvis' manager, Colonel Tom Parker (whose real name was Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk) was an illegal alien. Sending Elvis overseas, where Parker would have needed a passport to travel, would have jeopardized his being "found out". And Parker wasn't about to send Elvis over there by himself, where someone else might have exerted control over him and convinced Elvis to dump Parker.
It is reported that a promoter in Saudi Arabia offered $10M US to tour there, which Parker turned down."
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