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According to some amateur sociologists, the '70s are really the '50s-with a few more ulcers and a few more lines around the eyes. A Republican sits in the White House again, and skirts are supposed to be below the knee. Most of all, Elvis Presley is back...
The girls in pedal pushers and curler rolls who once listened to Elvis are now pushing 35 or 40, and the ducktailed boys of the '50s no longer have grease in their hair-if they have hair at all. Elvis, however, still sounds and looks almost like 1957. His...
Last week, he made his first appearance in Manhattan, where his four scheduled performances in Madison Square Garden drew some 80,000 fans and a gate of more than $500,000. If he sang like yesterday, Elvis looked like Mr. Tomorrow in a white cape and jumpsuit, covered throughout the...
The only truly new thing about Elvis is his audience, which in the '50s was almost exclusively the under-20s. He has kept his original fans-and added their children and parents. Even Rolling Stone, the rock bible, has praised him, though it deplores some of his more saccharine...
Elvis professes to be bored by the kind of movies he used to make ("I'm tired of playing a guy who would be in a fight and would start singing to the guy he was beating up"). He now looks forward to straight acting perhaps, and to performing...