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Lennon's death was not like Elvis Presley's. Presley seemed at the end, trapped, defeated and hopeless. Lennon could have gone that way too, could have destroyed himself. But he did something harder. He lived. And, for all the fame and finance, that seemed to be what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Day in the Life | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

It was one of those all too tempting tax dodges. Invest $30,000 in Wyoming coal fields, the pitch went, and use a loophole in the law to take a legitimate $150,000 deduction on Form 1040. Like many tax-shelter schemes, the offer attracted big names with big money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Crackdown on a Coal Caper | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

Gary Engler of San Francisco State University is Ampersand's Pizza Division winner with "RCA announced today the release of Elvis--the Pizza Sessions; previously unreleased material of Elvis talking, toking and singing while eating pizza. This limited edition 3-album set will include a special collector's poster of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sure enough, somebody won it... | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

Grand prize, the extravagantly overpriced 25th Anniversary Limited Edition Elvis Aron Presley, an 8-record set containing 65 unreleased performances, 8 full-color Elvis Picture sleeves, a 20-page picture booklet and an Authentic Autograph imbedded in each of the 8 records, goes to Kevin P. Whaley, surely the snappiest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sure enough, somebody won it... | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

The entry on Elvis Presley concentrates on the singer's virtuosity ("His voice covered two and a third octaves from G to B with an upward extension to D in falsetto"). The King's drug-taking is not mentioned. Yet for the first time in Grove, stars of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Grove of Treasures | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

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