Elvis Presley

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squiggle

I Sky+'d the Elvis programmes on BBC4 and watched the last one today. I found it a fascinating insight into someone who was quite literally unique. I found myself really liking him, Priscilla and Jerry Schilling were very touching in the way that they so obviously remember him with deep love. Also there was a track partly played in there (As Long As I Have You) that I haven't heard since I was about 16, I downloaded it and hearing it again took me straight back to the feeling I had when I listened to it then.

In these times when we have all seen so many really awful 'Elvis Impersonators' it was so good to see him at his best, such a handsome guy and so talented. What could he have been without the Col. taking him for every cent and signing him up for bum deals just so he (the Col.) could take his cut.

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Yogi19Member 10 years

My dad was a big fan of Elvis (he still is) so I grew up listening to his music. He was amazingly talented and it was tragic that his life ended the way it did.

1/14/101:47 PM

TinaMember

i love Elvis
this is Elvis is
the best to watch

1/14/101:49 PM

TinaMember

1/14/101:52 PM

TinaMember

YUM

1/14/101:54 PM

TinaMember

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=This%20Is%20Elvis&tag=swogam-2-29829-21&search-alias=dvd

1/14/102:01 PM

justafriendMember

i love some Elvis songs American trilogy, suspicious minds, the girl of my best friend. always on my mind.
i werent even born when Elvis died. i find that hard to believe really.

1/14/103:20 PM

Karma_Member

I grew up listening to him too, my dad loved him (my dad thought he WAS him but that's a whole other thread

)

I saw the Comeback '68 concert over Christmas (the one with him wearing the black leather - think that's what the concert was called?) and it just blew me away. Was mesmerising to watch. He certainly was unique, he had a stage presence that I've never seen before. Such a shame he was haunted by so many demons.

1/14/104:56 PM

Green&PinkMember

I thought it was fascinating the way he embraced all religions Karma.
He read the texts and underlined and annotated them.I never knew that about him.

1/14/105:42 PM

Karma_Member

I wish I'd watched all the docs on him cos he seemed like such an interesting, deep person.

Do you (or anyone) know of a good, honest and true biography I could read?

1/14/105:50 PM

squiggleMember 10 years

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I wish I'd watched all the docs on him cos he seemed like such an interesting, deep person. Do you (or anyone) know of a good, honest and true biography I could read?

My advice, don't go near any biography, they tend to be hatchet jobs. Those who really loved him never wrote books about him. Those BBC4 programmes will probably be on iPlayer, they are absolutely riveting, an intimate picture of him by those who truly cared about the guy. I ended up liking Elvis so much, he was so generous and full of love. OK he had major faults like being a real male chauvinist (the reason Priscilla couldn't live with him, leave the lil lady at home and chase the girls like a bachelor) but he was so full of love you can see it shining out of him, and so talented, he knew exactly how he wanted his records to sound. The Col. even messed with his records to squeeze more tracks on an LP (by speeding up the tracks

) so the Col. could make more dollars.

1/15/102:19 AM

BojanglesMember

Elvis is still the King.I bought the 11Disc Box Set (Limited Edition)DVD.

It came yesterday.So when CBB has finished It's going to be an Elvis February for me.

1/15/103:49 AM

PoolsharkMember

I grew up on Elvis, now there was a real star with true talent, funny thing though I was talking to a female freind of mine a few years ago and I asked herif she thought Elvis was good looking, she said he was too good looking, how can a man be too good looking?, if I was a woman I would deffo had fancied him, I bet he slept with more women than I've had cups of tea.

1/15/104:03 AM

BojanglesMember

He was gorgeous.Plus he could sing ballads as well as rock.He wanted to sing more ballads as he preferred them to rock and roll,but Col Parker wouldn't let him

1/15/104:23 AM

The Devil In DiamanteMember

Reference:

my dad thought he WAS him but that's a whole other thread

but my Dad thought he was him too!

1/15/104:46 AM

Garage JoeMember

My mum had a 78 of his entitled "Teddy Bear" and I can remember jumping and cavorting around the front room at a pre-school age. She also used to drag me to see all of his films. Anything that made her happy made me happy.

1/15/105:28 AM

DemantoidMember

I realise I risk being trampled by a stampede of blue suede shoes for saying this, but I loathe Elvis Presley.

1/15/105:56 AM

BojanglesMember

Puts on my Blue suede shoes.

1/15/109:02 AM

CindsMember 10 yearsMemoriam

I'm still very upset with him for ruining my 6th birthday

1/15/109:11 AM

Garage JoeMember

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I realise I risk being trampled by a stampede of blue suede shoes for saying this, but I loathe Elvis Presley.

Not at all. Me too! However as a child I enjoyed the music as descibed above ^^^^ It's what we describe as a Michael Jackson embarrassment scenario. If we want to have a laugh at my son's expense we play the video of him doing MJ moves at a Holiday Kamp talent show. He was very much into MJ at the time. Not that we are suggesting that Elvis had an unfortunate attitude to kids you understand.

1/15/1011:28 AM

Karma_Member

With MJ, I love the Jackson 5 music, and even some of Jacko's later stuff (Off the Wall, Thriller). I just ended up detesting him as a person, even before all the kiddie stuff. He thought he was some kind of messiah. He wasn't. He was just a bloke with meat and 2 veg who could sing and dance aswell and made it in the business. Overhyped and totally unnecessary.

1/15/1011:33 AM

DemantoidMember

I'm 100% with you on MJ, Karma.

Jarvis Cocker will always be my hero for giving his messianic posturing the response it deserved!

GJ - that's one sure way of stopping your son getting out of line!

How embarrassing - most parents just dig out the baby photos when their grown-up kids start bringing boyfriends or girlfriends home. But you've got something even better in the arsenal..

1/15/1011:37 AM

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