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in memory of the king

Posted about 1 year ago
January 8th was also the birthday of another important popular culture and musical icon...Elvis Presley! Some fun facts:-He was known to many as "The King of Rock N' Roll" -To date, he is the only performer to have been inducted into four music halls of fame.-He was the second of identical twins—his brother was stillborn and given the name Jesse Garon.-A nervous Presley's legs were said to have shaken uncontrollably during his first live performance. His wide-legged pants emphasized his leg movements, apparently causing females in the audience to go "crazy." Presley consciously incorporated similar movements into future shows.-Presley was seen as a "definite danger to the security of the United States." His actions and motions were called "a strip-tease with clothes on" or "sexual self-gratification on stage." They were compared with "masturbation or riding a microphone." Some saw the singer as a sexual pervert, and psychologists feared that teenaged girls and boys could easily be "aroused to sexual indulgence and perversion by certain types of motions and hysteria—the type that was exhibited at the Presley show."- The Beatles were big Presley fans. John Lennon said: "Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis. If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been a Beatles." I would like to remember him as he was before a fatal combination of prescription drugs and ultimate stardom brought him to an untimely (and rather embarrassing) end... R.I.P. and happy birthday, Elvis: The King of Rock n' Roll.
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Comments (5)

  1. Bartleby
    Bartleby says My, my. Who else shares your birthday cake with you? Some people (including the Beatles) say that Elvis never quite sounded the same after this picture was taken.
    Permalink posted 01/09/2008
  2. vannatta
    vannatta says This is the scariest quote: -Presley was seen as a "definite danger to the security of the United States." If Bush had been Prez at that time, he could have gone in to Iraq a _lot sooner - or at least, Memphis...
    Permalink posted 01/09/2008
  3. lilja88
    lilja88 says Bartleby: Other January 8 birthdays: Graham Chapman, Bill Graham, Stephen Hawking, Jenny Lewis, R. Kelly, Robby Krieger (of The Doors)...and more! I think I'm destined to be someone incredibly famous or important. Haha. Just kidding :) It's kinda fun to find out who shares your birthday though. Oh yeah, and getting drafted into the U.S. army is no slice of pie, even if you are Elvis... Vannatta: If GWB was president back in the day and they had those stupid "no-fly" lists, I'm sure Elvis would have been on it...considering he was such a "danger" to the security of the country!
    Permalink posted 01/09/2008
  4. Jonh Ingham
    Jonh Ingham says All hail the King! I'd take that leg shaking uncontrollably quote with a grain or two of salt. Researching an article some years ago I saw a 1957 interview where he said that he was watching Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup on stage and reckoned if he could do what Arthur was doing he "would be a mighty guitar man", and in another one that at his first live show he just started moving to the music and the girls screamed, so he did it again and quickly worked out that the more he did it the better the reaction. Elvis at 73...that's a thought isn't it? Would he be weird and twisted like Jerry Lee Lewis?
    Permalink posted 01/09/2008
  5. lilja88
    lilja88 says or what if his twin brother had survived?
    Permalink posted 01/10/2008

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