27 Years Ago Today Elvis Died....

[Braders]

little less conversation !

 

[Beach Hut]

Over rated singer IMHO

 

[Zeitgeist]

Damn you Attila - you beat me to it!

Pah, damn the pair of you. You BOTH beat me to it! How did the first verse go?.....

Elvis had a heart attack
Cause he was too bloody fat
He weighed nearly half a ton
He looked more like a pregnant mum!

 

[GNF on Tour]

This is a bloke who had legions of British fans and yet he never played here. His soul visit to these shores was when he passed through on his way to Germany to do his National Service.

Bloke was a big, fat twat. I can't stand his music.

Totally agree, over-rated pap, he is/was crap. Father of Rock and Roll - my arse!

 

[NMH]

Aha - I remember his death as the same week a 17yr old German girl 'surrendered' her virginity to me - she had a policeman boyfriend back in Dusseldorf for 2 bloody years. I met the cocky bugger soon after, when I visited Germany - and he struttingly proclaimed how poor it was that I hung out with two lovely German lasses on their hols and didn't get any!! It was difficult, but I kept schtum

I wonder if he ever found out

'Mein schatz bleibst here' (Wooden Heart)

 

[GNF on Tour]

So you both had your fill of Hamburgers that week then!

 

[NMH]

Totally agree, over-rated pap, he is/was crap. Father of Rock and Roll - my arse!

Odd as he is, the always-self-proclaiming Little Richard has to be the flamboyant King of Rock 'n Roll really.
Imagine a rouged megaquiffed gay black man, raising white female blood pressures by straddling his piano and thumping on the keys with his foot sweating profusely and shrieking "awopbopaloobopalopbamboom" with total abandonment of inhibitions - in a 1956 thoroughly repressed racist America!

I would recommend to anyone, finding a 'history of rock and roll' video set and witnessing the power and charisma exuded by him and Chuck Berry, as well as Elvis.

Bill Haley's Rock Around The Clock was perhaps a milestone in teen adrenaline-fueled musical arousing, simply because it notified the public at large of a pending change in presentation, and irreverence toward musical mores. Little Richard Penniman took it to a limit though, and it took the 'white-boy' repackaging in the form of Presley to be bearable into the mainstream white world.

Elvis had the essential energy required, but didn't write his own material, he translated it (inc Little Richard's Tutti Frutti, and the hapless - road injury just as he got public interest - Carl Perkins' Blue Suede Shoes). Good management, choice of songs, musicians backing, presentation, looks and thought went into making Elvis Aaron Presley a superstar. At the time they were caught up in the 'enigmatic' moment, and few consider how it got to their plate!

The Sex Pistols were presented in some similar fashion really, since session musicians played on their recorded material (Chris Spedding on guitar), and their stance was perfectly contrived to seize a moment. There's a talent in that!

Oasis though seem gallingly predictable to me, taking all the obvious previously-done 'rock-shock' and putting it all together in a clumsy contrived hotch-potch. Brothers fighting onstage (The Kinks) wrecking hotel rooms, ditching Rollers in pools and insulting people (The WHO)(and Oarsis even cut-and-pasted their Rolls into a pool! How f***ing wimpy was that!?) and swearing on telly (Pistols and the also-contrived Guns and Roses) and cancelling gigs for attention (G'n R again). "bigger than The Beatles". Oh, so controversial and dangerous. NEXT!

Yep, there's always another generation who are new to the game, and they'll be buying the next packaging of "bigger than Oasis". Let's hope that some youth will have some extreme talent, and puts it out there with such unnerving conviction as to make everyone take notice without having to dress it up in arrogance or overt and predictable trappings. I'm afraid the public actually require the latter.

"and we don't caaaaaaare" said Johnny. Ah, pretty vacant - but "we" actually DO care.

 

[NMH]

So you both had your fill of Hamburgers that week then!

She got the Bratwurst, GNF

 

[On the Left Wing]

Favourite Elvis joke was on the 25th anniversary of his death when his record company released the CD of 25 Elvis Number Ones ..... ironic as he was doing a Number Two when he died!