Legendary Memphis deejay George Klein saluted Elvis on SiriusXM

A beaming George Klein, then a VIP host at the Horseshoe Casino in Tunica, Mississippi, is captured during Elvis Week on August 12, 2009, at the Memphian Theater signing autographs after the premiere of “At the Gates,” a documentary directed by Kiara Geller, the son of Elvis’s spiritual guru Larry Geller. Photography by Caroline Pratt

On Friday afternoons from 2 to 6 p.m. CST “Elvis time” on SiriusXM satellite radio, the Memphis legend that was George Klein spun, interviewed, and talked all things Elvis Presley. Last in the studio on January 5, 2018, deteriorating health necessitated Klein’s on-air withdrawal until his death 13 months later at age 83 from dementia and broken hip complications. The encyclopedic…