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From small ads he moved on to multiple images of Coke bottles, green trading stamps, Campbell's soup cans and human beings. Thirty Are Better Than One (1963) presents 30 - count 'em - stacked Mona Lisas. In the same room are multiples of Monroe, Elvis Presley, the Statue of Liberty and Elizabeth Taylor. Warhol first painted Monroe after her suicide in August 1962. Instead of a recent photograph, he used a film still from nearly 10 years before. The flat silk-screen technique crookedly applies green eyeshadow and scarlet lipstick, like a magazine illustration of this season's makeup trends. Warhol...
...middle of the store sits a cardboard box filled with oversize, bug-eyed sunglasses, straight from the ’70s. On shelves lining the walls are arrayed Marilyn Monroe lunchboxes and statuettes of Elvis Presley standing next to a Harley Davidson motorbike. Behind the counter, a shelf holds fancy hairbrushes, combs and perfumes that can usually be found only in Europe...
...Elvis Week 2002 celebrations in Memphis (10-18) climax with a vigil, a video concert and brunch - up to 75,000 fans are expected to attend for the 25th anniversary of Presley's death...
...pickier about interpretations - a rare misstep for the master marketer; he should have understood that the life of an old song, like that of a Shakespearean play, is extended, not obliterated, by even the most radical new readings. It is said he was so annoyed by Elvis Presley's 1957 version of "White Christmas" that he financed a call-in campaign to have the song pulled from radio stations. In the late 80s Berlin turned down Steven Spielberg's pleas to use "Always" as the theme for a film of the same title, saying that he had his own plans...
...blind adherence to societal norms. What began as a search for personal identity among post-war teenagers resulted in a blow to the sanitized, suburban nuclear family unit of Eisenhower’s America. The resounding popularity of rock and roll icons Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley blurred the barriers between white and “colored,” poor and affluent, and right and wrong. Good little girls screamed upon witnessing the King’s pelvic gyrations and an entire generation fell in love with the sounds of “poor white trash?...