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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 on Google, 872,589 on AltaVista. That's about 856,000 more than my name elicits, and I've kept pretty busy the past 25 years with the writing thing. The Hillbilly Cat has taken it easy since his supposed demise...
...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 Country Songs." These follow the September release of the CD "Elvis: 30 #1 Hits," which ruled the Billboard chart for weeks - Presley's 10th top-ranked album in 47 years! OK, so in 1987 RCA issued "The Number One Hits," and that one contained only 18 songs. So they had to raid other lists besides Billboard's to pad it out. So who's going to kvetch about 12 free songs...
...music, the White Stripes, the Vines (who wowed critics but didn't come close to selling a million records) et al. were not nearly so successful as real relics such as James Taylor, Santana, Springsteen and even Elvis Presley, whose remixed A Little Less Conversation shook its pelvis up the singles charts 25 years after the King's death. This phenomenon was as much a matter of technology as psychology: with the spread of CD burning and online music piracy among kids, middle-aged folks are essentially the only people who buy music anymore...
SPLITSVILLE Nicolas Cage & Lisa Marie Presley...
Deviating from the familiar script in celebrity divorces, Lisa Marie Presley made no mention of a continued friendship or deep mutual respect when she announced that she and Nicolas Cage would be divorcing after three months of marriage. Instead, she displayed uncommon candor, saying, "I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place. It was a big mistake." Presley and Cage ominously chose to marry on Aug. 10, the 25th anniversary of her father's death. Their divorce seems less surprising than the fact that the union didn't last as long...