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Does Elvis go online? Computers were the size of 18-wheelers in 1977, when the King "died"; the World Wide Web was 15 years in the future. Today is his 68th birthday, and if he were to type "Elvis Presley" into a search engine, he would find 794,000 links...
He's not in the studio either, though you'd hardly notice. This week four reissues, all newly remastered from originals, hit the racks: "Elvis 56" (documenting his miracle music year), "Heart and Soul" (a collection of ballads), "Can't Help Falling in Love" (numbers from Elvis' movies) and "Great...
Make that 13. Last year the Dutch DJ Junkie XL (Tom Holkenburg) slapped a ferocious backbeat on "A Little Less Conversation," a sassy but obscure Mac Davis-Billy Strange composition that Elvis recorded in 1968. The Presley Estate sharply agreed to let Junkie apply his remix to a Nike commercial...
With one prominent exception. On the amazon.com page devoted to the single, a ringing negative comes from a correspondent who ID's himself as "Elvis Presley's Gap-friendly Ghost." And this King is pissed. "As I return from the grave," he writes, "I hunger for a new approach to...
Calm down, O Ghost of Elvis Past, and think of the old days. Thanks to Colonel Tom Parker and the suits at RCA, you didn't have that much to say about your music when you were alive. Don't expect final-cut privileges now that you're "dead."