Elvis

[Otto]

My very first record was bought for me by my mother when I was very young. It was a double LP called "That's the Way It Is". I remember the shop called CNA (Central News Agency) in Central Johanneburg quite distinctly. Johannesburg was a good place to call home back in 1973. If you were white.

I have been an Elvis fan since I was five, but the legacy boggles the mind:


LONDON - Unable to use video footage of Elvis Presley on tonight's 'Top of the Pops', BBC producers have booked an Elvis impersonator to sing the number one single 'One Night', the UK's 1,000th chart-topper.

Producers scouted Mario Kombou, the star of Elvis musical 'Jailhouse Rock', to help with their problem. They were unable to secure the rights to use video footage of The King.

A 'Top of the Pops' spokesman said: "It's a very special number one as it's the UK's 1,000th. We wanted to pay tribute to Elvis in the best way we know how, so we thought getting a professional would be the best way for 'Top of the Pops' to do that."

Last week, 'Top of the Pops' used still pictures of Elvis to accompany his number one 'Jailhouse Rock'.

'Jailhouse Rock' and 'One Night' are the first two of 18 early Elvis UK number ones to be released by SonyBMG over the next few months. The copyright protection on his early songs is expiring, because copyright on sound recordings lasts 50 years after the recording was made.


The BBC said that Kombou is likely to appear on 'Top of the Pops' again next week because the next Presley re-release, 'A Fool Such as I', is on course to give him his third number one in three weeks.

http://www.brandrepublic.com/mediabulletin/news_story.cfm?articleID=233041&Origin=MB21012005

 

[aitchw]

I would have thought by 6 you'd have been over it! How anyone could idolise him is beyond me.

 

[Sgeir]

Elvis would have been 70 on 8th January. What's worrying for me is his hair. Why's he got more than me? And why's it darker?

According to the BBC report at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4155925.stm, he'd have looked like this:

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John Lennon, at 64, it is claimed, would have looked like this:

according to the Beeb at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3728030.stm.

 

[Aunt_Erika]

The wife says "If Elvis was still alive he`d probably be dead by now"........

Work that out for your self......

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Christ.... John Lennon must still be alive..... its Eddie Jordan......

 

[ubuysa]

EJ? Nah, that's Dustin Hoffman!

The thing that most makes me realise how fast technology moves is the thought that John Lennon never knew what the Internet was. He died before it became more than just a research project!!

 

[Sgeir]

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John Lennon never knew what the Internet was.

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Before Brendan gets in, I suggest that JL might possibly have been aware of the Internet - but not the Web.