Mr. Michael Keller

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  www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=26&st - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/16/2007    Last Visited: 8/17/2007  

  In Germany, like in the United States, his music and style was controversial, recalled Michael Keller, the mayor of Friedberg.
  
  "He was accused of perverting the young," Keller remembered, and in many homes, there was no question of listening to his records.But he breathed new life into the town.
  
  In 1960, the star left Germany, where he had met his future wife, Priscilla, who was then just 14.
  
  Over the years, not all townspeople forgot him: Hans-Ulrich Halwe, still a fan, even moved to Bad Nauheim in 1970, where his idol had lived.
  
  In 1998 he started the Elvis Presley association that organizes festivals every year to commemorate his deathon August 16, 1977.
  
  Between 5,000 and 10,000 visitors are expected this weekend for the festival, to include concerts given by Elvis impersonators and an automobile parade.
  
  "We hope to create something lasting," he added, referring to his wish to open a museum.

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  Published on: 3/11/2005    Last Visited: 3/11/2005  

  The deputy mayor of Friedberg, Michael Keller, recalled earlier this year how Presley's arrival electrified the locals."It was rock ‘n' roll and the PX shops with American products and a whole new image for Friedberg -- very exciting," he said.

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  (Photo by Petra Roberts - Friedberg's Mayor Michael Keller, left, and former Elvis Presley barracks-mate David Bailey examine photos of the King during Bailey's visit to Friedberg and Ray Barracks in Germany)

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  (Photo by Petra Roberts - Friedberg's Mayor Michael Keller, left, and former Elvis Presley barracks-mate David Bailey examine photos of the King during Bailey's visit to Friedberg and Ray Barracks in Germany)

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  Michael Keller.
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  The deputy mayor of Friedberg, Michael Keller, recalled earlier this year

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  Bishop's Stortford Town Council - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/26/2005    Last Visited: 8/20/2006  

  Town Twinning To receive a letter from Friedberg notifying that Michael Keller, the newly elected Mayor, would take office from January 2006.The Town Mayor agreed to write to Winfried Bayer thanking him for his friendship over the years.
  
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  Press Reporting The Town Mayor stated that he had been disturbed to read in the local press the adverse criticism directed at Cllr Armstrong by members of the public regarding the granting of a Licence Extension to Cllr Armstrong.

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  Elvis Lives on in Bonn - Elvis Presley - [Cached Version]
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  "It was rock 'n' roll and the PX shops with American products and a whole new image for Friedberg -- very exciting," said deputy mayor of Friedberg, Michael Keller.

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  Elvis Presley Exhibit - Bonn, Germany - 2004 - [Cached Version]
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  "It was rock 'n roll and the PX shops with American products and a whole new image for Friedberg -- very exciting," said deputy mayor of Friedberg, Michael Keller.

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  Elvis's German army town faces GI blues - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/31/2004    Last Visited: 3/31/2004  

  "It was rock 'n' roll and the PX shops with American products and a whole new image for Friedberg -- very exciting," said deputy mayor Michael Keller.
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  Keller said he had been told that all Friedberg's troops would be gone by 2007 or 2008, bound either for the United States, eastern Europe or a consolidated base in Germany.
  
  "There is something being lost here and I don't mean just economically," he said.
  
  Keller, who is a member of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats and an opponent of the Iraq war, said he had bid an emotional farewell to the troops on behalf of the town when they left for Baghdad.
  
  "I was probably the only city official in Germany to give a speech like that," he said, referring to the country's fierce opposition to the Iraq war.
  
  Keller said the ties between the troops and Friedbergers had come to run deep with one-third of all marriages registered between local women and US soldiers, at least until the Iraq war.
  
  Eleven men have since died there, the last on Christmas Eve, and Keller said the town suffered with their families.
  
  He showed a plaque presented to him in thanks for the town's support affixed with a chunk of marble from Saddam Hussein's chief presidential palace in Baghdad.

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  ElvisNews.com ......The independent Elvis Presley News... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/28/2004    Last Visited: 11/20/2004  

  The deputy mayor of Friedberg, Michael Keller, recalled earlier this year how Presley's arrival electrified the locals."It was rock 'n' roll and the PX shops with American products and a whole new image for Friedberg -- very exciting," he said.

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