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Rarely has sarcasm been so prophetic. The dead Elvis - if he did die; some of the faithful still think he's in seclusion, holding out for a second coming - quickly became more valuable as a memory than he ever was as a singer or movie star or Vegas action figure...
This year is special - the big three-oh - so the sales pitch is at fever pitch (and that's saying a lot when one considers the marketing schemes in previous years). In addition to an eight-film collection of his early Paramount features, a six-pack of his later MGM...
The commercial hype is appropriate for a singer who made the trip from anonymity to commodity in no time flat. He was an instant sensation with the Jan. 27, 1956, release of his first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel." The following night he appeared on Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey's Stage...
Everybody concentrated on his looks - the sultry, pouting, feminine face, with its unabashed sexual threat - and his moves, cranking those hips like a honky-tonk woman's. As John Lennon said much later, it was an epiphany for kids to see "a guy with long, greasy hair wigglin' his ass...
Crosby, no less an innovator than Elvis, was the first to play to the microphone in the recording studio, not to the last row in the vaudeville balcony. With his easy baritone (the top singers of the time were tenors), he introduced intimacy to pop music. Sinatra, whose bobbysoxer fans...