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Despite being easy to insult
Elvis still has real appeal
By Stew Magnuson
Diversions
And the man who could
singThough he hasn't got a
thingHe's the King!Of the
whole wide world.
-Elvis
Backtracks
We're dragging Elvis from
the grave? With a pick-up and
a chainWe're draggin Elvis
from the grave? The world is
saved!
-13 Nightmares
Elvis Presley. Who in the Western
world doesn't know about "The
King of Rock V Roll?" Elvis was the
man who helped create most of the
music we hear today. Elvis was the
man who combined white country
blues with the soul of a black man.
Elvis was the one who popularized
and shaped rock 'n' roll and made it
palatable for the millions of inher
ently racist baby-boomers growing
up in the late fifties.
When Elvis died in August 1977, 1
was fishing in Canada on a lake 100
miles north of nowhere. I was far
away from civilization: no roads, no
TV. Barely audible shortwave radio
stations was all we had. An Indian
from a nearby village came up to the
dock where my father and 1 sat
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fishing.
"Elvis died," he told us flatly.
I shrugged my shoulders and cast
my line back in the lake.
The only thing I found amazing at
the time was that they had already
heard about Elvis' death from civili
zation. "The King's" death itself
really didn't mean much to me.
Yeas later.Geraldo Rivera on the
news show "2020" broke the big
story: Elvis died ajunkie. "The King
of Rock Y Roll" died strung out on
a catalog of drug-store perscrip
tions, all made out and prescribed
by Elvis' cronies and his personal
physician. Now Elvis' death had
meaning for me in some sick way.
Local punk bands started making
sick tributes to Presley. It was hip
to make fun of "The King" and Elvis
worshipping by the older genera
tions. How can one not laugh at
alleged vials of Elvis' sweat selling
for $10 at the local flea market? How
can one not laugh at the droves of
middle-aged women dressed in poly
ester paying to take tours of Grace
land, Elvis' home?
Oh yes, I've made light of Elvis'
death in my writing this semester.
Let's face it, by making so many
laughably had movies, he left him
self open for ridi ule.
I believe that laughing at Elvis is
a vvav the younger generation, or at
least myself, shows its hostility and
rebelliousness toward the older gen
' Wfl
eration. It's a way of saying:
"Hey look, Mom, the man you
worshipped and adored, the man
you called the king of rock Y roll,
he died a strung-out pill-popper.
Ha!"
Of all the early rock heroes, only
Buddy Holly had the advantage of
dying early. His memories and music
are preserved without being scarred
by later misfortunes. Little Richard
had to become a preacher. Chuck
Berry had to give up trying. Jerry Lee
Lewis had to marry his 14-year-old
cousin. And Elvis had to make bad
movies and die ajunkie.
Now that I've taken the time to
listen to "The King's" music, I have
to admit having more respect for
him than I did years ago. No, Elvis
didn't write his own music. His
songs were written by a stable of
proven hit writers. No, Elvis couldn't
play the guitar very well; he could
hardly be called an innovator like
Lonnie Mack or Chuck Berry.
But Elvis was the one who popu
larized rock 'n' roll. He was the one
who came on stage and twisted his
hips as if he wanted to take his
guitar to a cheap hotel and have an
affair with it.
Before turning to such mundane
crap as "Clambake, we're going to
have a clambake, Yeah!" in his later
movies, Elvis performed fresh and
exciting music that still sounds
good on my turntable 30 years later.
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