2006-08-16 03:42:16 · 16 answers · asked by busterp 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Or, I guess, if he is still living, what's he doing?
2006-08-16 03:42:59 · update #1
Let's assume that he'd cleaned himself up by the end of the 70s (very important, else the rest of this is academic - the man was in BAD shape when he died!)
Sadly, I think he would have been largely a musical irrelevance in the 80s,90s, 00s. Revival of a couple of his hits in commercials (e.g. 'A Little Less Conversation') would have given him a little lift (after all, Levi's boosted sales for both Percy Sledge and Ben E King) and allowed him to mount a mini-tour in medium-sized venues.
He'd have ended up doing a Far East leg, playing in the same places that hosted the Platters and Englebert. Later on, for shock or novelty value, a really hip young band would've sampled an old Elvis hit, then paid him to appear in their video, most likely a cameo comedy role set in a fast food restaurant.
Near his end, like his close contemporaries Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, he'd have been making duet albums with modern musicians who, in a borderline-patronising kind of way, always want to attach themselves to a legend before he dies.
I'd rather not watch. I'd rather just remember the vital, charismatic performer who cut those six or so classic Sun singles that both made rock n' roll possible, and put the sex into it.
RIP, Elvis, hope you really are dead, and resting well.
2006-08-16 04:22:19 · answer #1 · answered by Bowzer 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He'd be making money from commercials for Subway after he dropped a ton of weight...or selling Ab Blaster machines late at night on some painfully booring infomercial.
2006-08-16 10:48:50 · answer #2 · answered by synchronicity915 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Doing his drugs and getting fatter. I loved the man but he really did let himself go. But then again with the way times have changed he may be exercising and getting himself healthy once again.
2006-08-16 17:02:28 · answer #3 · answered by butterfly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
4 words
Dancing With the Stars
2006-08-16 10:47:25 · answer #4 · answered by sam21462 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
He's giving voice lessons to a monk in Cleveland, OH.
2006-08-16 10:50:36 · answer #5 · answered by Brooke C 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Proably getting broke, after all I think if he was alive, and for those who believe he is whatever, that people wouldn't still be as into him.
2006-08-16 10:56:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably a guest on the Jerry Springer show....or he would have his own similiar show.
2006-08-16 10:49:15 · answer #7 · answered by 3eleven 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
playing Vegas
2006-08-16 10:48:30 · answer #8 · answered by Penguin Gal 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He probaly sing. I knew that He died because i saw it on t.v
2006-08-16 10:53:28 · answer #9 · answered by Cle-Cle 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure he'd be sittin' in a wheel chair drooling.
2006-08-16 10:47:33 · answer #10 · answered by TJMiler 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋