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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...music business would list it as rhythm and blues because of him being black." The combined evidence of the bottom line, the hard listen and the long view is difficult to resist: Jackson is the biggest thing since the Beatles. He is the hottest single phenomenon since Elvis Presley. He just may be the most popular black singer ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why He's a Thriller | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

Onstage, half a dozen Soviet groups belt out numbers in a Berlitz of languages, including English, Italian and French. As midnight slips by, the gray-uniformed police stationed by the amplifiers glower, but the beat goes on. Suddenly a combo swings into an Elvis Presley classic, and the fans roar along, "Mah bluh svade shoos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grandchildren off the Revolution | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

Elsewhere in the paper there were emotional farewells from columnists, some of whom, like the sole good athlete on a last-place team, had been allowed an astonishing amount of latitude over the years. At a time when a Memphis radio station was infuriating a bloated local boy, Elvis Presley, with a weight-mocking song called Just One More Jelly Doughnut, whose background refrain went, "He's gonna pop!" a Press-Scimitar columnist was actually begging in the paper for Elvis to give him a Cadillac. The singer was not moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Tennessee: Death of an Afternoon | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

Harvard contracted the McDowell Company, a landscape construction business, to build a courtyard in front of Boylston, following a "cobblestone sunburst" design by architects William Presley and Associates...

Author: By Sonya C. Laurence, | Title: Mud, Shovels and Holes Mark Start of Boylston Courtyard | 11/11/1983 | See Source »

...much remembered today, though she made 84 movies, including Strangler of the Swamp and Devil Bat's Daughter. Lee Meriwether (1955) has had roles enough, but her name has failed to attain the tip of the national tongue. Mary Ann Mobley (1959) made those Elvis Presley films, and has had trouble shaking the image ever since. Mobley's runner-up, Anita Bryant, is another story altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: The Miss is a Hit | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

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