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Rewind to 1960, when rock ’n’ roll has officially blossomed into a full-grown adolescent: kicking, screaming and improperly shaking its pelvis. Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry have become thunderous gods among whiny children, inspiring countless rebellious youngsters to pick up instruments and make nimble hands the devil’s playthings. The garage band epidemic spreads, and the lurching noises of guitars and drums are piling up in backyards, basements and school auditoriums all over the country, bursting with the pre-war vivacity and whimsy that defined the generation...
...very nice, but it felt inevitable. This is a fashion season in which commerce has triumphed over art, directors like Luhrmann and Robert Altman are making fragrance commercials, and celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Mick Jagger, Sofia Coppola and the Presley family (Priscilla, Lisa Marie and her daughter Riley Keogh) are mingling with the press at private dinner parties in Milan and Paris. The clothes--fabulous as many of them are--often seemed secondary to the loud whir of the celebrity p.r. machine...
...court sided with the 61-year-old rocker's claims that the company cheated him by offering a series of favorable loans, and then held debts over his head as a bargaining tool. Hallyday could receive 350 million in damages, though Universal is appealing. "It's like if Elvis Presley decided to sue his producer when he was alive," says Jacques Verrecchia, Hallyday's lawyer. As the first decision of its kind in France, the case could inspire spin-offs. "The consequences could be absolutely catastrophic for the recorded-music business," Universal's lawyer said. Not everyone agrees...
...Ritchie, read up. The kin of icons will find a handy parenting primer in Vogue's upcoming age issue, as three generations of Presley women strut their genetic blessings. (The money ain't bad either.) LISA MARIE PRESLEY, 36, center, boasts that her daughter RILEY, 15, a model, has survived relatively unscathed the limelight that comes with being Elvis' granddaughter. "She's not a bimbo! She's not one of the Hollywood pretentious kids. She's not shallow," says Lisa Marie of Riley. "There are certain very affected Hollywood-celebrity kids that I never was raised as." And PRISCILLA...
...significant one, and one that would go on to become one of the most popular artists of the 20th century. But to date the birth of rock to his work is to deny those that came before him, not just Turner, but other black performers as well. Presley admitted his music had roots in the black community - so why isn't an artist from the black community being celebrated on rock's birthday? Why is Presley's name the only one on the cake? Presley had the courage to cross the color line to create his music...