The Parkes Elvis Festival's Wall of Fame event has been running for 28 years and every year standing in the crowd has been Parkes woman Rhonda Redenbach.
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She has the proof too.
Since 1995 Rhonda has attended the Wall of Fame ceremony in the NSW Central West town - autograph book and camera in hand - at Kelly Reserve where an Australian music legend is celebrated and honoured with a place on the wall each year.
On January 4 she collected her 28th signature and photo, that being Ross Wilson's, the founder and frontman of Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock.
"I have every Wall of Fame signature," Rhonda said.
"And if they weren't here in person, the person representing them would sign the book.
"Like with Johnny O'Keefe."
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Johnny O'Keefe was the very first inductee onto the Elvis Wall of Fame in 1995 but he had passed away in 1978.
Rhonda is well known around Parkes for her involvement in the Parkes Shire Concert Band, having been its president for a good 20 years.
She's a drum major and auxiliary percussion, and has been involved in the Elvis Festival for many years, particularly taking the Parkes Shire Concert Band in the annual street parade that attracts a hundred or so entries and thousands of spectators on the Saturday morning of the festival.
"I just love music... [And the festival] it's just good fun, it's the magic of it all," Rhonda said.
Rhonda doesn't have a particular favourite music legend who appears on the Wall of Fame.
"John Paul Young, Little Pattie, Brian Cadd - there's just so many," she said.
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Interestingly, the Wall of Famers aren't the only signatures she's been collecting.
"I have every [Parkes] Australia Day ambassador too," Rhonda said.
She's been collecting those ever since we've had ambassadors, which began in the early 90s with Australian actor Leonard Teale, who passed away in 1994.