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July 2006. For all enquiries phone George at
01-4361772
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"Trips to
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 Bill Haley might have got there before him ( he had his
first hit with Rock This Joint in 1951 ), but Haley
was chubby, Married-and above all corny. But Presley was
snake hipped, macho - and above all, carnal.
When he exploded onto 1954 with That's All Right,
Elvis triggered a cultural revolution. Hollering out
something pitched between black rhythm 'n' blues and white
gospel quartet crooning, with as much off - kilter sexuality
as you could take, Elvis Presley was like nothing on earth.
Baptist ministers across America called him "morally
insane". The young truck driver with a toothpaste grin from
Memphis who loved his mother and mashed banana sandwiches
was suddenly an antichrist whose diabolical image could only
be shown on T.V. from the waist up.
By the end of the sixties,
Presley's promise was largely unfulfilled. Manager Colonel
Parker's "business decision" that his client concentrate on
recording soundtracks to accompany his movies-was the
biggest mistake of the century. It speeded Elvis's
degeneration from The King to Burger King.
Like Marilyn Monroe before him, the question of Elvis Aaron
Presley - who he was, what he represented, and what he did
to our culture - is as alive today as the man is dead.
On August 16th. 1977, at age 42, he died in his bathroom at
Graceland - a victim of his own phenomenal success. Beyond
the various attempts at character assassination, however,
there is one very magical thing about Presley that they can
never take away: his music. With it, he mapped out the
blueprint for the pop music that spills out of your MTV
today.
Who could forget the biting carnality of Hound Dog -
a women's dig at her no-good man? Or the edgy kick of
Jailhouse Rock - with drummer D.J. Fontana imagining he
was on "a chain-gang smashing rocks" for the recording? Or
the haunting spookiness of Heartbreak Hotel -
inspired by a newspaper story of a man who committed
suicide, leaving a note which read: "I walk a lonely
street..."? Or the bawling R 'n' B bluster of I Got A
Women - which inspired guitarist Chet Atkins, who
played on the sessions, to call his wife to tell her to come
on down to the studio because "she'd never see anything like
this again"? Not me anyway.
The last time I cried was when Elvis died. It was a terrible
night. I took down the Elvis mirror that hung on the wall in
my bedroom. It didn't seem right to keep him up there, now
that he was Up There. The Elvis bedspread had to go in the
hot press too.
The most embarrassing moment of my life? My sister Karen
walking in on me when I was a six- year- old, dancing and
singing along with a broom in my hand to Elvis's woe-is-me
classic This Time Lord You Gave Me A Mountain.
Karen still ribs me about it to this day.
 
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Elvis Presley Fan Club. All rights reserved.
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