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Let's not, mutters the ex-prisoner. Abandoning his pepup and soy derivative, he pushes onward to a record store. His favorites have quite literally passed on. Judy Garland, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix-all killed by various ODs. The Beatles? Fragmented. The unheard of Woodstock? While he was gone...
Clearly the pop world has come a long way since the Crew-Cuts first sang Sh-Boom. When Elvis Presley twitched at the head of a pack of oil-gun-groomed Teen Angels, white youth abandoned the syrupy somnolence of Joni James and Patti Page to share, at a safe...
RCA's man on the West Coast, Lou Galliani, is the epitome of the new look in rising record-company executives, tricked out in velvet jeans, flowery shirts, shell beads around his neck and African trading beads around his wrist. He carries a leather shoulder bag and has a house...
A couple of minor and diverting curiosities are included: the presence- fleeting, alas-of an agonizingly unfunny comedian named Jackie Kahane; a fast, amusing montage of clinches from old Elvis pictures, featuring the star leering and nuzzling a variety of pneumatic starlets; and a close look, offstage and on, at...
The credits bill Colonel Tom Parker as technical adviser, a title that does not do him justice. The colonel has been by Presley's side since the beginning, a combination Machiavelli and mother hen without whose approval nothing goes out under the Presley imprimatur. While the colonel does not...