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Kylta

Will give credit where its due, very talented singer and a wonderful voice. I can understand the younger generations not liking his stuff because he wouldn't be classed as a modern singer. But he could sing anything. Has I write this I just realised I'm a fan of Elvis singing.

Kylta

McGinniesta wrote: »

The second most overrated musical act in history.

Whose the first?

ThewhiteJesus

KungPao wrote: »

I just googled "songs written by elvis"

Result was "Elvis never wrote a single song".

In a way, you have to respect that! Some neck.

a bit like Luke Kelly in that way, two great legends that didn't write songs, elton John is another actually !

Conall Cernach

ThewhiteJesus wrote: »

a bit like Luke Kelly in that way, two great legends that didn't write songs, elton John is another actually !

Elton John generally writes the music to his songs while Bernie Taupin does the lyrics.

Capt'n Midnight

PTH2009 wrote: »

the amount of auld lads who still dress up and do the elvis tributes is big. In Waterford we have Rocky Mills

I imagine in the states there's 1000s of tribute acts to him

1000s ?

http://www.murderousmaths.co.uk/elvis.htm

When Elvis Presley died in 1977, it's estimated there were about 170 people impersonating him. This number grew and grew and in the year 2,000 it was estimated there were about 85,000 Elvis impersonators.

At that growth rate the number of Elvis impersonators by 2043 will match the global population.

So that means EVERYBODY on earth including people in the ghetto will be a guitar man just like Elvis...

Ger Roe

Elvis lives.... in Ben Portsmouth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUG1l8FviHY

Beechwoodspark

Lord almight

I feel the temperature

Rising

Kylta

In fairness father ted couldn't have put it any better than the three stages of elvis. Maybe father jack was the closest to him.

[Deleted User]

the state of him in 1977 though at 42

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR_NwNR9vTc

ohnonotgmail

glasso wrote: »

the state of him in 1977 though at 42

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR_NwNR9vTc

At his peak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF5u7b8pAYQ

Ger Roe

glasso wrote: »

the state of him in 1977 though at 42

Yeah... he was badly let down by those around him. He was probably the first 'celeb' to disintegrate in full public view, but sadly, he was not the last. Fame is a hard thing to deal with and you need good people on the journey with you to cope. It tends to attract users and abusers and hangers on.

[Deleted User]

Ger Roe wrote: »

Yeah... he was badly let down by those around him. He was probably the first 'celeb' to disintegrate in full public view, but sadly, he was not the last. Fame is a hard thing to deal with and you need good people on the journey with you to cope. It tends to attract users and abusers and hangers on.

I'm sure that you are correct but also a bit of responsibility must lie on the man's own shoulders.

the purple tin

PTH2009 wrote: »

the amount of auld lads who still dress up and do the elvis tributes is big. In Waterford we have Rocky Mills

I imagine in the states there's 1000s of tribute acts to him

Yeah it is quite a phenomenon. There are no Johnny Cash or Sinatra impersonators for instance (or very few if there is) but there have been Elvis-a-likes for years all over the planet ever since he died. Loads in Japan btw.

Alejandro68

glasso wrote: »

the state of him in 1977 though at 42

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR_NwNR9vTc

All those drugs and fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches will do that to you.

Montage of Feck

The last time I saw Elvis
It was some kind of Vegas dream
Spotlights flashed on a silver cape
And a blue-haired lady screamed
He was the king

anewme

Anyone who doubts that Elvis is 'the King "needs to watch the 68 show. Over 50 years later, it stands the test of time.

People commenting that Elvis the King died on his Throne wont ever posses one fingertip of the originality, raw energy, talent or charisma of the man. That is the reality. It makes people feel better about themselve that he fell from grace to what he became at the Vegas shows, but that is not the real man.

In pop culture, he was an early 'product" and was marketed and exploited as such and was ahead if time that way too.

Once a person is identifiable by their first name, that's what makes them an icon, identifiable world wide.

Rothko

the purple tin wrote: »

Yeah it is quite a phenomenon. There are no Johnny Cash or Sinatra impersonators for instance (or very few if there is) but there have been Elvis-a-likes for years all over the planet ever since he died. Loads in Japan btw.

Yeah, it's kinda funny. Not many young people will listen to Elvis but he's still such an icon. A figure that you could still easily recognise from his silhouette.

[Deleted User]

anewme wrote: »

Anyone who doubts that Elvis is 'the King "needs to watch the 68 show. Over 50 years later, it stands the test of time.

People commenting that Elvis the King died on his Throne wont ever posses one fingertip of the originality, raw energy, talent or charisma of the man. That is the reality. It makes people feel better about themselve that he fell from grace to what he became at the Vegas shows, but that is not the real man.

In pop culture, he was an early 'product" and was marketed and exploited as such and was ahead if time that way too.

Once a person is identifiable by their first name, that's what makes them an icon, identifiable world wide.

he's up there with Britney and Kylie alright

biko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XJWrBpzgaU

bobbyy gee

Elvis has left the building
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_FXa-yFpjS8

Wibbs

Ger Roe wrote: »

Yeah... he was badly let down by those around him. He was probably the first 'celeb' to disintegrate in full public view, but sadly, he was not the last. Fame is a hard thing to deal with and you need good people on the journey with you to cope. It tends to attract users and abusers and hangers on.

The Beatles were invited to the court of Elvis and were really excited to meet someone who was an idol of theirs. Hard to understand these days with such near daily (apparent)access to "stars" of stage and screen, but back then he would have been like some alien from a distant land of America and Rock and Roll and Hollywood to a bunch of provincials from Liverpool. He was apparently sound enough, but distracted and they came away disappointed at all the nonsense around him. It was either John Lennon or Ringo Starr who later said that they had been lucky because with all the madness swirling about them there were three other guys in the calm in the middle of the storm that could keep the chancers and hangers on and ego at bay, but Elvis had nobody and that was why they could see he was fooked. Later on when Lennon was trying to get a green card to live in the US Elvis tried to block it through his contacts in the FBI reckoning Lennon was an "unamerican" bad influence.

Wibbs

On Elvis' lack of songwriting; back then that was the norm(kinda the way it's become since the 80's with pop singers anyway). The vast majority of singers, popular and the new rock and roll sang other people's material written for them by various "Tin Pan Alleys", where they just adapted their writing to a different beat. Guys like Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly were very much the outliers, though the folk singer end had much more of a history of it. Even when the aforementioned Beatles were auditioning for various labels with feck all success* them mentioning they wrote their own stuff was seen as "ahh bless, isn't that's nice, can you shut up and give us some proper songs please".

The Rolling Stones weren't too sure about writing their own material and came to it after they were signed, much of it because they saw and were encouraged by the Beatles into giving it a go. That the Stones without any real notions of songwriting beforehand hit the ground running and bloody fast(within months really) and bloody well with it has always impressed me.

That opened the floodgates and for the most part meant that the only artistes considered "authentic" were singer songwriters. That in of itself hurt Elvis and he was in the doldrums of cheesy Hollywood for most of the 1960's until his comeback concert where he showed he could still cut it in a big way. Sadly that led to Vegas and the trappings of rhinestone pantomime. He was a simple man, an actual working class boy with little by way of education, or support, with a huge talent. The British invasion guys on the other hand and for all their working class protestations(Lennon being a big one for this, the most middle class of the band) were for the most part middle class boys who had more to fall back on and room to manoeuvre.

*after being turned down by everyone they ended up being signed by what had become EMI's comedy record division Parlophone. Their producer was used to classical recordings or stuff like Peter Sellers and the Goons comedy records. Which actually turned out to be a wonderfully apt fit because he had the classical stuff and an ear for the unusual and experience in special effects on records.

anewme

glasso wrote: »

he's up there with Britney and Kylie alright

Would you ever get off the stage.