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...Everybody concentrated on his looks - the sultry, pouting, feminine face, with its unabashed sexual threat - and his moves, cranking those hips like a honky-tonk woman's. As John Lennon said much later, it was an epiphany for kids to see "a guy with long, greasy hair wigglin' his ass and singin' 'Hound Dog'." Elvis was the first pop singer who had to be seen, not just heard, to be appreciated (or condemned). What was ignored at the time was his connection to the two crucial vocalists who had preceded him: Bing Crosby in the 1920s and 30s, Frank Sinatra...
...Decades after the fact, John Lennon remembered the impact Elvis had on kids in the 50s, who naively turned on their TVs and saw "a guy with long, greasy hair wigglin' his ass and singin' 'Hound Dog'." The weirdness was watching not just a white kid who sang black, but a man who moved like a antsy woman. And sometimes sang like one. Around his 19th birthday, a year before he hooked up with Sam Phillips' Sun Records, Elvis did a demo tape he recorded a noble-masochism ballad called "I'll Never Stand in Your Way." (The cut appears...
...WIGGLIN' HIS ASS AND SINGIN' 'HOUND...
Yeah, sure--but wasn't it a wonderful life? It sure looks swell on TV. You'll see the infant Beatles in matching leather outfits (Lennon: "We looked like four Gene Vincents, or tried to"). Lennon talks of his love for Elvis--"a guy with long, greasy hair wigglin' his ass and singin' Hound Dog." Their long slog to the top (John and Paul met on July 6, 1957, so that by the time the Beatles hit the U.S. in 1964, their career together was already half over) gets a brisk treatment, lighting for but a moment on the specters...
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