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Article: Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- February 6, 1995
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ALL SLOPES are slippery. Forty years ago, columnists and clergymen were tearing their hair over Elvis Presley, whose televised hip-swiveling was contemptuously compared by the New York Times to "the repertoire of the blonde bombshells of the burlesque runway"; today, MTV pumps gangsta rap and heavy metal into the homes of millions of teenage suburbanites, and nobody, least of all the Times, hoists an eyebrow. As for Elvis, I caught him on the Disney Channel just the other night, looking (and sounding) as innocent as Glenn Miller. The French, as usual, were wrong: the more things change, the worse they get.
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