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...memory of Elvis?? revolutionary career and powerful legacy, RCA Records is releasing a compilation album featuring Elvis?? 30 #1 hits. The album is tentatively titled Elv1s, and will be released this fall coinciding with the 25th anniversary of Elvis?? death. RCA hopes that the album will regenerate excitement about the King. “Over the next six months, you should expect to see Elvis reappear in popular culture,” says William Finkel, a publicist...
...despite the fact that his likeness is universally known, the associations it conjures up are rarely those of a serious artist. Even much of Elvis?? residual fan-base has fallen into the trap of celebrating The King as little more than a lurid joke, a historical throwback or a great excuse for an outrageous costume party. If there is one thing this caricature of a man—a man lost in his own world of sex, drugs and blue velvet—seems to have lost, it is his relevance to contemporary music and pop culture...
...Forget Elvis?? unprecedented—and still historically unmatched—popularity. Forget that he has sold more records worldwide (more than a billion) than anyone else in the history of the record industry. Forget that he produced 131 gold, platinum or multi-platinum records. Forget that he was recognized by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (the Grammy award people) for achievement in every major category. Forget all measures of Elvis?? fame relative to his time. One could still write him off as a relic—a “white trash...
Everywhere one turns a rock legend is humbly crediting their musical birth and inspiration to Elvis?? music. Bob Dylan: “When I first heard Elvis?? voice I just knew that I wasn’t going to work for anybody and nobody was going to be my boss…Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail.” Jim Morrison: “Elvis is the best ever, the most original. He started the ball rolling for us all.” Chuck Berry...
...caricature. John Lennon once said that “Elvis died the day he went into the army.” Perhaps it would be more precise to say “Elvis died the day he went mainstream.” As money poured in from all directions, Elvis?? “negro singing” and hip-gyrations became safe. No longer perceived as the “devil in disguise,” he was readily accepted into middle-class households. And with his enlistment, Elvis became a patriotic and admirable figure. He gained acceptance...