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Post subject: The enduring enigma of Elvis
 Posted: Aug 13, 2007 - 10:17 AM
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It may be 30 years since Elvis Presley died, but the King still lives on through his music, films, countless impersonators - and even a set of commemorative Russian dolls. He inspires such devotion that every year 600,000 people make the pilgrimage to his former home Graceland.
Half of them are too young to remember the day he died. Presley is sometimes portrayed as a figure of fun from his latter years - gluttonous and drugged in a rhinestone jumpsuit. But for many he was the first singer to bring rock and roll into the living room.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6937441.stm
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Posted: Aug 13, 2007 - 02:21 PM
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| I'm an Elvis fan. He died a week before my tenth birthday. Me and Mama cried our eyes out. Daddy didn't really give a hoot. People will remember him mostly for his over-indulgences and his spiralling out of control attitude towards the end. I'll remember him as the King of Rock-and-Roll. One of my favorite movies of his is going to be on tomorrow. Frankie and Johnny with Donna Douglas. I also like the movie Follow That Dream. His acting probably wasn't the best. Well, let's face it, it was corny. But his singing was sublime and he was excellent eye candy when he was fit as a fiddle. |
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Posted: Aug 13, 2007 - 09:59 PM
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I was forced to listen to Elvis while growing up. That's about all my dad listened to, so I'm not a big fan of his. I would like to visit Graceland though.
I'm more of a Beatles girl myself. I think I absorbed the lyrics to most of their stuff through the womb.... Yes, I'm dating myself. I was "cooking in the oven" when they were extremely popular!!!! |
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Posted: Aug 14, 2007 - 03:33 AM
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I have a extensive collection of record albums. I won't say that I have all of them, but I do have a good many. Some are the old mono records too.
Oh, and somewhere on the Graceland wall is a message that I left when I visited Graceland the year he died. |
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Posted: Aug 14, 2007 - 03:45 AM
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| vampyregirl wrote: | I was forced to listen to Elvis while growing up. That's about all my dad listened to, so I'm not a big fan of his. I would like to visit Graceland though.
I'm more of a Beatles girl myself. I think I absorbed the lyrics to most of their stuff through the womb.... Yes, I'm dating myself. I was "cooking in the oven" when they were extremely popular!!!! |
You and I would get along very well. I too was one of those kids forced to listen to Elvis all through childhood, and preferred the Beatles. I was 3 years old when they were on Sullivan, but I do remember it, one of my earliest memories.
I have to admit now when I hear an Elvis song, it reminds me of better times home with my mother and father. The only Elivis song I absolutely hate is Blue Christmas, we had to hear it too many times!
And I have made the pilgramage to Graceland. I have an aunt and uncle in Madison TN, and went there many years ago. Amazing place. |
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