16/08/2007 1:36:22 pm
Three Decades Without the King. It is hard to miss the fact that Elvis Presley passed away 30 years ago today. He was - and is - an enormous cultural pheonomenon. There is something for everyone in a very complex figure: The rebel, the mega-star, the American Dream, the patriotic Conservative icon, the self-ironic super-performer - and a life ending like a Greek tragedy. Nowadays, there are numerous films on You Tube - not least from concerts in the early 1970s, when at least I think he was at his best. Here is one cool clipping from 1970 with "Little Sister/Get Back".