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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...style as much as the songs he sang that made Elvis Presley such an immediate, and ultimately irreplaceable, phenomenon. Initially, it was all a matter of attitude, the low lids, the lip that curled up like a whitecap before breaking on the beach, the musky voice that seemed to take its honey coating from a lot of scruffy worldliness and its distinct throb from straight below the waist. His first appearances were small Pop cataclysms. The sensuous movements that headline writers called "gyrations" and that earned Presley nicknames he did not like-Swivel Hips, the Pelvis-had their roots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Last Stop on the Mystery Train | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

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