On another forum there was some discussions about idol worship. Some wag made daft jokes about the term.
But then I was listening to Radio National this morning and heard a defrocked Anglican priest in Canada who was cut out of his official ministry cos of his Elvis fixation.
Suss out this http://www.elvispriestley.com/ link. Odd?

Now, the question is, I think;
Was Elvis really that good that so many people have given him Christ like qualities?
Er; his apparent resurrection and multiple appearances (albeit as a gas jockey or check out assistant or some such)
People have seen Elvis in near death experiences.

Have a serious discussion if that’s what you want. Me, I am just stunned and struggle to render unto the king of sings such status. I didn’t like him that much.
Who would be a better cantidate in your world?

I’d like to rule out Abba if I may (I think they work for the other side).
Who is the real King of Sings?
Group
female artist
whatever.

Owen Atkins - 16 August 2007 11:34 AM

Who is the real King of Sings?
Group

Bono said Frank Black of The Pixies was the greatest songwriter to come out of the States. I don’t think too much of U2, but The Pixies are great!!

Also, John Lennon said there would be no Beatles if it wasn’t for Elvis. So I think respect is due there.

But who do think is the best group? Probably Radiohead. All you geezers need to buy OK Computer or The Bends.

Geoff Chambers - 16 August 2007 11:53 AM

Also, John Lennon said there would be no Beatles if it wasn’t for Elvis. So I think respect is due there.

Blame, Geoff.

Not respect.

Cheers,
Andrew

LOL

One would think if there was a band you could assume everybody liked, it would be The Beatles.

I don’t understand how people don’t like the Beatles. I’m 24 and they were way before my time, but they’re still way ahead of most contemporary bands today.

Cheers

geoff

Geoff Chambers - 16 August 2007 12:16 PM

LOL

One would think if there was a band you could assume everybody liked, it would be The Beatles.

I don’t understand how people don’t like the Beatles. I’m 24 and they were way before my time, but they’re still way ahead of most contemporary bands today.

Cheers

geoff

That’s correct, Geoff. Which says an awful lot about what I think of current ‘music’.

Cheers,
Andrew

Andrew Kroiter - 16 August 2007 12:27 PM

That’s correct, Geoff. Which says an awful lot about what I think of current ‘music’.

There is good current stuff out there. You just won’t hear much of it on the radio.

I am not an Elvis fan at all; my husband kindly gets his Elvis fix when I’m out.  But I do know that his only Grammy awards were for Gospel music, not rock ‘n’ Roll, and apparently he was extremely proud of that fact-his Gospel music was very close to his heart. 
For me, give me some Dylan or CSN&Y;and I’m happy as a pig in mud.  Don’t mind the Beatles, but rarely play their music. 
My just-turned 3 year old grandson Jesse is an ardent U2 fan; his favourite song in the whole world is Vertigo, he watches the DVD endlessly and sings it with all the Bono gestures (including holding out the “microphone” to the audience so they can sing along).

Geoff Chambers - 16 August 2007 12:31 PM

There is good current stuff out there. You just won’t hear much of it on the radio.

Hi Geoff

I think that most music stopped around the early to mid 1700s.

I do like some Steeleye Span, but then, a lot of what they sing is English folk music which probably came from earlier times but has been ‘reworked’!

Cheers,
Andrew

Andrew Kroiter - 16 August 2007 01:21 PM

I think that most music stopped around the early to mid 1700s.

ahhhhh.....this explains a lot of why you don’t like The Beatles.....You’re one of those people…

:-)

Hi Geoff,

Geoff Chambers - 16 August 2007 01:24 PM

ahhhhh.....this explains a lot of why you don’t like The Beatles.....You’re one of those people…

:-)

It sure does, and to quote one of my favourite TV shows … And loving it!

Elvis is dead ?  No wonder he doesn’t reply to my emails.

30 years has gone by so fast.

Actually I’m all shook up - huh huh. I’m going to have to drown my sorrows at the Heartbreak Hotel - huh huh. Unlike Pinocchio, I don’t have a Wooden Heart - huh huh.

At least I can get out my Blue, blue - blue suede shoes - huh huh !

Cheers, Kevin - huh huh

I have just the Terry Pratchett book for you fellows:

Soul Music

You’ll love the many humorous references to songs from the 60s forwards...if you manage to get a copy of the book & read it!

TZ.

Hi Tia,

I trust that your teaching days are going well. As per your signature, is your aim really getting any better ?

Thanks for the Pratchett reference - it really shook me up. I have added it to my quest list - it’s more definite than merely a wish list.

Now I must be off on urgent business - have to get my footy tips in !

Cheers, Kevin

Elvis was sighted in a hamburger shop in Manly a couple of weeks ago I heard. He was also supposed to own a garage in Newtown, and he has a beard these days. Or these may be rumours....

I liked Elvis when I was very young, and he was new, but his style became very dated.

He revelled as a showman in Las Vagas where old women with purple beehive hairdos and tight clothing still shreaked and liked his act.

He did become a bit pathetic - fat and ugly at the end, and he was worth more money to his investors dead than alive. He made more money from music sales after his death, than when he was alive.

I liked ‘jailhouse rock’ and ‘hunk of love’ from his early rockin’ days. He was a 50’s man.

Preferred 70’s music, though, to his style. I like good music from any era, especially new music.

‘I just want to talk to you
I wont do you no harm
I just want to know about your different lives
On this here people farm’

I grew up with the Beatles - during my childhood they always seemed to have at least one new release in the Top 40. Ken is right; Elvis was very much a remnant from the fifties (although he still has that effect on many women). And although ‘A Day in the Life’ still sends shivers down my spine, Lennon was never ‘King’; more a poet...like Dylan.

‘I heard some of you got your families,
living in cages, tall and cold
And some just stay there and dust away
Past the age of old

There is one performer who typifies ‘Rock’ music,especially of the sixties and seventies (and today?); yet his virtuoisty on the instrument has overshadowed his genius at song-writing and his incomparable talent as a performer.

‘I just want to know about,
the rooms behind your mind
Do I see a vacuum there
Or am I going blind’

His music has come to typify the sixties - I can’t remember a ‘Vietnam’ movie without at least one of his songs - although he created a style of playing and performing that is still current; and while much emulated, has never been bettered

‘I have lived here before,
(Before) the days of Ice
And of course this is why I’m so concerned
And I come back to find
The Stars misplaced
And the smell of a world,
that has burned’

He was in many respects naive; used and abused by those around him; who died just when his talent should have been reaching it’s zenith. He left behind only three albums which truly encapsulate his ability - the rest (especially the bootlegs) can be ignored.
No ‘Popular Music’ performer deserves the title of ‘King’…
but he comes closest.

‘So where do I purchase my ticket
I would just like to have a ringside seat
I want to know about the ‘New’ Mother Earth
I want to hear and see everything’

‘Up from the Skies’ from ‘Axis: Bold as Love’

Jimi Hendrix

Rob