It must be tough being Elliott Wheeler. The Gold Coast-based composer, music producer and entrepreneurial founder of Sydney’s Turning Studios was forced to listen to the more than 800 tracks recorded by Elvis Presley in his lifetime. While being paid. Then reinterpret the best of them for a modern audience.
Sometimes those sessions were in Nashville, Tennessee, where Elvis himself recorded, in New York, or in the same Los Angeles studios where Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack convened.