Elvis Fans in the 21st Century

Meaning lots of fingers crossed behind backs, and creased party dresses on the night itself. The sexual element was one thing, social class another. Elvis , from a poor family, his father an ex-con, the family homeless more than once, attended black church; he was essentially white trash from the projects, or social housing as we call it in the UK.

There is a believable theory that the Beverly Hillbillies TV show, about a family from the hills who strike it rich go and live in a mansion alongside respectable society, was based on Elvis and his family when they moved out of the projects and into Memphis proper in and then Graceland the following year. While her son became the most famous man in America, Gladys Presley continued her Southern ways in the new family home, keeping chickens and hanging her washing out back, holding on to a sense of normality.

The old money around her twitched their net curtains in horror. The neutering of Elvis , and his conversion into the milk-drinking God-fearing all America boy — which he was all along, on the quiet — was deemed necessary.

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Into the army he went, footage of his mighty quiff shaven down to the scalp meant to humiliate, proof the bad boy had been brought to heel. The false construct as Elvis Presley the thick hick, endures and continues today. The two years of him away in the army gave Tom Parker , former carnival shyster, control and Elvis came home to a treadmill of acting in a stream of not very good films, in which he burst into relentlessly chirpy song each ten to fifteen minutes.

On his under par records he sounds bored. Elvis developed eating and sleeping disorders and prescription drug addictions, crash dieting so severely his weight went up and down during the length of a single movie. The Special gave everyone a beautiful shock, If I Can Dream was stunning, him in front of a live audience for the first time since In the show, he went back to basics. Live work became what Elvis did next, from until the year of his death, yet the twice daily grind of performing show after show as part of a residency in Las Vegas wore him down, Parker turning him into a performing seal took its toll, the fat white jumpsuit Elvis taking over.

In he divorced wife Priscilla and suffered from increasingly bad health but Aloha from Hawaii showed him in fine form, and broadcasting via satellite to between 1 and 1. As Elvis hit his mids and entered his early 40s, something wonderful happened. His voice took on a fullness and richness only hinted at earlier and he found his groove, releasing the most remarkable recordings. And there are lots of them.

The songs from s, recorded at studios like Stax and in Nashville, and in his own home, are confident and mature. He is comfortable, commanding, authoritative. Elvis masculine but in a more grown up way. If there was one place he was in control, it was in the studio. He explores country, gospel, and sings quality ballads.

They give us a glimpse at what was to come. In his book of essays Dead Elvis: Marcus is not far from the truth. If there is money to be made out of Elvis , it is coined in. The message around Elvis right now is confusing. What is he for? Who is he for?

Hologram Elvis dueting with Celine Dion on American idol in was an all time low. Or so we thought at the time; the hologram with band and orchestra for concerts on top of that since are cynical, vacuous exercises. I saw Elvis 50, 60 years ago, and this is exactly the same thing. Nearly 50 years after Presley made his first hit record and 25 years after his death, the compilation reached number one on the charts in the US, the UK, Australia and many other countries.

A re-release from it, "Burning Love" not a remix , also made the Australian top 40 later in the year.

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Presley's renewed fame continued with another remix in this time by Paul Oakenfold of "Rubberneckin'", which made the top three in Australia and top five in the UK. This was followed by another album called 2nd to None, a collection of his hits, including the "Rubberneckin'" remix, that just failed to reach number one.

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To commemorate the 50th anniversary in mid of Presley's first professional recording, "That's All Right", it was re-released, and made the charts around the world, including top three in the UK and top 40 in Australia. The first of these re-issues, "All Shook Up", was ineligible to chart due to its being sold together with a collector's box which holds all 18 singles in it it actually sold enough to be number two.

All of these have reached top five in the official charts. These re-releases have made Presley the only artist so far to spend at least weeks in the British top On the UK singles charts, Presley went to 1 the most times 21, three of them hitting 1 twice , spent the most weeks there 80 , as well as had the most top tens and top forty hits. In the UK album charts, he is third 1, Weeks to Queen 1, Weeks and the Beatles 1, Weeks , as well as earning the most top ten, and top forty albums.

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Still in the album category, his longevity record boasts an almost fifty year gap between his first, and last hit album. In total, he has spent 2, weeks in both the UK singles and album charts, way ahead of his closest competitors, namely Cliff Richard 1, , Queen 1, , the Beatles 1, , and Madonna 1, A channel on the Sirius Satellite Radio subscriber service is devoted to the life and music of Presley, with all broadcasts originating from Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee. In a list of the greatest English language singers of the 20th century, as compiled by BBC Radio, Presley was ranked second.

In November of , Atlantic Magazine asked 10 prominent historians to name the most influential Americans, with Presley who ranked 66 , along with Louis Armstrong 79 , being the only two musicians on the list.