Elvis

[craner]

in a professional capacity? or stanning?
tell us more

What do you mean "in a professional capacity"?

 

[haji]

I think Elvis probably is a pre-internet icon, never made the leap,
like Kenneth Williams

 

[haji]

What do you mean "in a professional capacity"?

singing?

 

[haji]

cultural espionage?

 

[craner]

yeah, it's easy to poke fun at the later Elvis - Colonel Tom made him a lot of money but at the expense of credibility, it's easy to forget how influential the Sam Philips's era Elvis was

I like his films, they're hilarious. Elvis always turns up as Elvis, but with different jobs, like a racing driver or a rodeo cowboy or a water ski instructor, doing silly dances with wonderful women like Ann-Margret.

 

[craner]

cultural espionage?

Well, this may surprise you Edward, but I went as a tourist.

 

[linebaugh]

Graceland is an insane place. really grubby and disgusting. still kind of fun though

 

[linebaugh]

When we visited my mom insisted on playing that awful paul simon album the whole drive there

 

[WashYourHands]

Took my Mum to see the virtual Elvis hologram and Priscilla. Every break was a default to terrible ads for Graceland holidays. 2 weeks at the Elvis tip? Where do we sign

There was no escape. Rattle skin boots and jackets, a bloke on crutches dance hopping in the seats below

Sometimes you have to take Valium, you just have to

 

[william_kent]

I like his films, they're hilarious. Elvis always turns up as Elvis, but with different jobs, like a racing driver or a rodeo cowboy or a water ski instructor, doing silly dances with wonderful women like Ann-Margret.

I think he did more than"dance" with Ann-Margaret ( but that would be off-screen.. )

 

[Leo]

I think Elvis probably is a pre-internet icon, never made the leap,
like Kenneth Williams

well, he died in '78, well before Al Gore invented it.

 

[haji]

It's quite miniature too, in relation to how you imagine it to be in your imagination.

i'd like a proper write up from our correspondent, full trip report please

 

[WashYourHands]

Betty’s favourites

The Wonder of You, American Trilogy and the awful one where he should have loved a teenager enough

Deep scars

 

[Leo]

young Elvis, TV network censors only allowed the camera to show him from the waist up, wiggling hips too salacious to show to impressionable ladies and young 'uns.

 

[craner]

young Elvis, TV network censors only allowed the camera to show him from the waist up, wiggling hips too salacious to show to impressionable ladies and young 'uns.

You're starting to sound like a BBC4 music documentary

 

[WashYourHands]

I can’t ask if Mum has rubbed one out to Elvis, Leo

 

[haji]

I like his films, they're hilarious. Elvis always turns up as Elvis, but with different jobs, like a racing driver or a rodeo cowboy or a water ski instructor, doing silly dances with wonderful women like Ann-Margret.

Something of a James Bond, a new exotic location and nubile co-star every year

Elvis in Hawaii

Elvis fan site about Elvis in Hawaii

www.elvisinhawaii.com

 

[Leo]

I can’t ask if Mum has rubbed one out to Elvis, Leo

probably more than just mums.

 

[craner]

Something of a James Bond, a new exotic location and nubile co-star every year

Yeah, and the more that got made, the weirder they became

 

[Leo]

biker jacket, tight leather trousers. that's some proto-DAF shit.