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The most famous wonk to blow a sax was, of course, Bill Clinton, the main subject of Greil Marcus's new essay collection Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives. Marcus, a rock-n-roll critic best known for lively volumes on Elvis, Bob...
Clinton was, Marcus writes, "out to show the country someone willing to cut himself down to size, and at the same time try to take off and fly. A man willing, for a moment, to pretend he could be Elvis."
Comparisons between the President and the King dominate Double Trouble. The parallels are almost too obvious to be worth noting: two southern hillbillies with no business in the national spotlight, much less the national consciousness, amble confidently into positions of immense power. And as if their poor backwoods pedigrees weren...
Epstein was quietly convinced that the Beatles had a remarkable talent that would enable them to eclipse the popularity of Elvis and last for an eternity. At the time, this was seen as a ludicrous boast about a loud, scruffy group from an unfashionable English province.
ODB sightings: it's like the Elvis thing, except you know he's alive! The rapper reappeared at a release party in New York for the Wu-Tang's new album. Then he was arrested in Philly while signing autographs at a McDonald's. For a fugitive, the man certainly...