Does Elvis really deserve the title "King of Rock 'n Roll"?

Question

Or do you think someone else deserves that title?

what about John Lennon?

Mick Jagger?

Tim H- Michael Jackson out sold Elvis!

Answer 1

i dont know i like that show where they wanna rob mick jagger tho LOL!

But i think aerosmith, led zepplin are also contender for the title .
Cya

Answer 2

"King of Rock 'n Roll"? idk. But the title "King", yes. In the 50s Elvis took the entire world by storm. As much as I love Michael, the Beatles, Sinatra("Chairman of the Board"), Arnold, Sly, Britney, Savage Garden, Back Street Boys, Aretha, James Brown, Legend, Bennett, Nat King Cole,
Lena Horne, Doris Day, Lucy Liu, Audrey Hepburn, Dr Martin
Luther King, Jr, Ronald Reagan, Dean Martin, Bob Hope,
AnN Coulter, Dr Billy Graham, and a host of other extremely well know people including JFK,
known world wide, only Jesus Himself surpasses the instant name recognition impact that Elvis had in the 50's. I really don't think that I'm exaggerating when I say the Elvis "owned" the planet during that short time
period. People all over the world who are 45 years old or more know that name like that back of their hand.-----
If you don't understand why, then look at it this way. TV was still very very new. Computers were something that only a handful of people dealt with. AM Radio was "HUGE" and there were always at least two or three stations that played the top 40 24 hours a day. Most Americans under 45 could name the top 10 in any given week off the tops of their heads.
There was basically no talk radio yet, no internet, no video games at all. Ball point pens were new inventions that everyone just had to have. Car phones were just way too expensive to operate by the average person. Small transistor radios were the Blu tooth of the day!!! Most everyone still went to movies at least once or twice a month. Entertainment was Extremely limited, so the name Elvis was on everyone's lips. World Wide.
BELIEVE IT!!!
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EDIT: Chuck Berry, Berry White, Jimi Hendrix, and many others made HUGE contributions to the entertainment industry. HUGE. And so did many others. MM, John Wayne,Cary Grant, Perry Como, Xavier Cougat, BB. Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Louis Jordan, etc. All of these made it to the very TOP. But all of them paid homage to Elvis. All of them!!

Answer 3

Elvis was evolutionary when it came to his music--he brought together the background he had in singing gospel and the hillbilly styles of the era--the blues and early pop styles of Memphis were a combination of all these influences. He had the moves because he felt them in his inner self----what became of it all was a new sound a and a new style---people liked what they heard and saw---not until the Beatles was there such a music revolution--worldwide. I guess that makes him the tops or KING as you put it. Is there anyone else that did it as big and as long as he did it??

Answer 4

Without a doubt, Yes, Elvis is worthy of his title! Look at his hits and his unique style that began rock and roll! It all started with Elvis.

Answer 5

from your avatar you must think Michael is the "King of Pop". Hmmmm.....the difference is Jacko annointed himself! hey, if John Lennon said Elvis was still the King,that's good enough for me!you have to go back, before the fat,before las vegas ,before the movies...go back to the ed sullivan show,where the network wouldn't show him below the waist,where the girls screamed louder than for the beatles.we bneed to have a sense of history about these things.Elvis was the white man who could sing like a black man.hey i didn't say that,sam phillips, the founder of legendary Sun Records,the ,man who discovered Elvis,said that.Elvis was the "missing link.the rascist radio stations wouldn't play music sang by african-americans,they would steal the songs and let Pat Boone cover them,for gawdsakes.

Answer 6

Why not Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry or John Baldry " So don't try to lay no boogie woogie on the king of rock and roll"

The fact that Berry wrote all his own music, while Presley did not hmmmm

Answer 7

He was the king of an era and certainly knew how to rock a crowd. There are some others up there though. He is the king of performing I just dont know how many songs he wrote himself

Answer 8

no chuck berry was doin rock n roll long b4 Elvis, anyway rock n roll is r&b 4 white people and b4 any1 goes of on 1, this is nothing to do with race just facts

Answer 9

Elvis will ALWAYS be the King of Rock 'n Roll !!

Answer 10

I think elvis deserves it. Come on, he pretty much invented rock and roll.