Elvis would have been 75 today. I remember the day he died, and he was a megastar way before I was a twinkle in my mother’s eye. But I watched a couple of TV shows last night about him, featuring some of his performances, and even with the grainy old TV, some of that amazing charisma comes across.
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I have seen some old clips of Elvis, when he was young and good looking, appearing on American TV shows and duetting with established artists. The audience, particularly the females, are totally adoring. The thing that comes over is an almost child-like delight from Elvis himself as if he can’t believe his good fortune. I can’t say that I am a huge fan, but I do acknowledge that he was very special.
I also love that quote from whichever record producer it was, “Go back to your truck son, you ain’t going anywhere.”
Thank yuh. Thank yuh varry much.
Call me E – That was rather sweet.
Stoneyground, you either misremembered the quote or you have a tin ear. It should have read “You ain’t goin’ nowhere.”
Jeez.
actually, I don’t mind a bit of elvis. Not a really big fan, but every now and again nothing else really hits the spot…
One thing that needs to be nailed – it was not the entertainment business that messed up Elvis, it was the army (to be specific the, do nothing, army he was shoved into in Europe – conscripted, not for combat, but just to be about).
He was clean before he was conscripted – even the man’s enemies concede that. But in the army he was surrounded by people offering him pills – and he did not have much else to do.
Elvis is everywhere!