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...only white on the crowded bus to work, and one of the few on the new, efficient subway system. The Paul Simon Graceland Tour, despite its amazing Black South African performers, drew an almost completely white audience. Both Blacks and whites visit the Six Flags amusement park. But during a day there I saw only two mixed groups. It was the same at the city's Lenox Square shopping mall...
...some fans, however, not even the music is enough. Elvis' Memphis home, Graceland, already a prime tourist attraction, will gear up for everything from candlelight vigils to a 5-km run. Lucy de Barbin, who claims that her daughter Desiree was fathered by Elvis, is pushing the recently published Are You Lonesome Tonight?, which purports to dish out the hot sticky behind the entire episode. Meanwhile, the King's official ex-wife, Actress Priscilla Presley, is offering a one-hour video tour of Elvis Presley's Graceland. It isn't hard to figure what Elvis would have made...
...very own. He died bloated with his own excess and everyone else's expectations. He did not invent rock 'n' roll, but he forged it and focused it, and he was the first great rock superstar. He haunted his contemporaries, like Jerry Lee Lewis, who once showed up outside Graceland waving a pistol and demanding an audience. John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, John Fogerty -- all dreamed of him and were daunted not only by his gift but by his destiny. He was the rocker they yearned to be and feared becoming...
PAUL SIMON: GRACELAND (Warner Bros.). Transcendent spirit under African skies...
Seeking a way to reach his generation, Paul Simon finds in South African songs the fire for his intrepid new album, Graceland...