Why So Much Fuss Over Elvis?

Question

why do people dress up as a dead man ie i mean old cheese burgur himself elvis
people dressing as him trying to mumble like him
i dont see the point hes dead accept it
check out alice coopers song about him on the dragon town albuim called "disgrace land" realy had me in stitches
no doubt ill get abuse from the kkk and other red necks
sueeeeeeee yee haaaa am a shitkicker doing the shitkickers waltz
i dont give a hoot cause theres **** on me boot

Answer 1

beats me -- he stole alot of music from performers and they never got the credit -- he did. some of his songs he wasn't even the first to record, he was just the first to get it played on national radio.

Answer 2

If it replaced into the thirtieth demise anniversary of your all time best suited hero, could you not make a fuss approximately it ?? Elvis is the best to truly some human beings the worldwide over. you won't have the potential to think of how vast he's even interior the remotest corners of the globe. If somebody such as you, who needless to say isn't plenty into Elvis, is likewise bugged via the fuss, then needless to say, he might desire to be a incredibly in call for guy.

Answer 3

Elvis rocked the world in the 1950's as a leader among performers who brought about a revolution in music and pop culture. The voice. The energy. The moves. The charm. The attitude. The humour. The rawness and realness.

" Huh-Huh-Huh"

Answer 4

Elvis could convincingly sing pop, rock, blues, rock-a-billy, country, and gospel. I can't think of too many artists that can claim that kind of talent. His voice was one of a kind and will never be duplicated. His was a rags to riches story although with an unhappy ending.

How many Elvis Presley songs have you actually listened to?
Probably not too many. As for your references to red necks and the KKK, Elvis Presley's records charted on Billboard R&B charts 35 times including six times at #1.

Answer 5

He was the first musician to get a number 1 hit (Hound Dog) on all three Billboard Charts (Rock, Country, and R & B). This was the holy grail in the music world that everyone was striving for. He was a great performer and a fine musician.

Answer 6

Elvis was revolutionary. Without what he (and other original artists of that era) did, the music scene today would be very different.

If you don't like the music, try to respect what it's done for the music you do like.

Answer 7

I gree Elvis embodies the ULTIMATE in American Middle of The Road LAMENESS!

Answer 8

No artist has sold more records or ever will. His estate still earns more in royalties than most of the shite in the charts today added together.

Answer 9

Because he's the most talented and hottest performer that has ever lived.

Answer 10

"Imagining rock 'n' roll without Elvis is like imagining the Revolutionary War without George Washington," wrote fan Geri Elsasser of Colorado. Lester Bangs summed up the Elvis Revolution best, writing in his essay "Where Were You When Elvis Died?"; "When Elvis started wiggling his hips and Ed Sullivan refused to show it, the entire country went into a paroxysm of sexual frustration leading to abiding discontent which culminated in the expression of psychedelic-militant folklore which was the '60s." No one yet had broadcast such a frenzy of sexual energy, and for '50s teens, Elvis became both instigator and object of desire. Imitating him became a form of self-expression, writes Elvis scholar Erika Doss in her 1999 book, Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, & Image. Through their physical and emotional participation in his act, Elvis's fans were encouraged to become an "audience of performers." Doss quotes one 15-year-old fan who enthused to Life magazine in 1956, "He isn't afraid to express himself," speaking of Elvis's performance style. "When he does that on TV, I get down on the floor and scream."

Elvis's throbbing effect on his fans' hearts and loins relied on his ability to appear to communicate with millions of kids individually. Doss quotes fan after fan (whose impressions she collected in interviews and surveys throughout the '90s) echoing what one San Jose Elvis devotee recalled: "Even in those big sports halls and even on TV, I just knew he was looking and singing just to me." Fan clubs encouraged this reaction by sending updates on Elvis's activities and "personal" notes from Elvis himself -- form letters that encouraged fans to push his music ("Drop your local disc jockey a card and ask him to spin one of my songs for you.... Remember that I'll be singing it just for you!!"). In this way -- in addressing a mass audience as individuals -- we can speak of Elvis's commercial success not only in the normal sense of enormous popularity, but also as literally like a commercial. He was the perfect marketing vehicle because he seemed to speak to each person alone, which amounts to what every commercial aims to do: sell a mass product as unique, flatter each viewer with the illusion that the spectacle is staged for him and him alone.

Long live the king!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!