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Like the Walt Disney Co. and Lucasfilm Ltd., EPE is indeed a ferocious guardian of its properties and with a wolverine-like tenacity, has managed to back off everyone from the Thomas Cook travel agency (trinkets for Memphis tours) to the state of Mississippi (Elvis-shaped flower arrangements) to fan...
The company's rousing growth has meant that Lisa Marie Presley has personally made tens of millions. In 1993, when she turned 25, with cash rolling in from Graceland and some 100 well-heeled Elvis licensees, she quite wisely reappointed her mother as trustee of the estate. Besides facilitating her...
The voice is thin, nasal, with a feminine vibrato and an attack of naked innocence. The song is a noble-masochism ballad called I'll Never Stand in Your Way; the singer is Elvis Presley, right around his 19th birthday. This primitive demo tape is among the treasures in RCA...
Sadly, the pulverizing novelty of sexual danger was quickly domesticated, as the star jumped into mainstream show business. Within a year of his flash flame, he had segued from being Elvis to doing Elvis, playing him on TV and in movies. By the '60s, he was his own parody, stunt...
Platinum ends with a speech Elvis made in 1971. Quoting Vincent Youmans' 1929 Without a Song, he says, "So I keep singin' the song." The impulse to sing raunchy, corny, beautiful songs trapped Elvis; and in that trap, as this set proves, he sometimes found triumph.