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But what we fail to see is that, while the content may be all nostalgia and would-be innocence, the packaging is relentlessly right up to date. Elvis, along with whatever else remains of the early fifties, along with folk music and rural traditions, along with the simplicities of our...
You can watch the Elvis documentary or its Woodstock big brother, but don't think you're getting the early Elvis or the simple life. It all comes to you courtesy of MGM or Warner Brothers, and, just as the form is the cold, calculating product of the corporate arm...
Las Vegas, to be sure, does indeed have its own tribe of Hair. (After all what are a few more bare breasts?) A permanent attraction of the very International Hotel that Elvis was to play. But while other Hair tribes across the nation spent the summer organizing peace-through-music...
But then the Elvis engagement opened. All through August, leading up to a Labor Day crescendo, Angelinos were making the trek through the desert. "The greatest nightclub act ever," they reported back. (None of us stopped to think that in a world
where glossy male performers dressed in tightly cut dinner jackets or casual turtleneck sweaters to sing "Raindrops Keep Falling" and "The Impossible Dream," such reports were faint praise.) "And Elvis has never been better," they said. No quibbling over that. Clearly, whatever was happening out there in the desert, it...