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Article: Good rockin'.(the early years in the career of Elvis Presley; Elvis Lives)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- August 18, 1997
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The kid from Memphis put 'Elvis' on his guitar in stick-on letters and took his turn driving to gigs. It was the best time. It couldn't last.
HE SEEMS MOST LIKE OUR CONTEMPORARY when he was most remote from us--back in the early days, a kid just out of high school, with his first band and a little indie-label record, driving all night to nickeland-dime gigs with the bass lashed to the roof of the car. The young Elvis Presley wouldn't look out of place today in Seattle, or L.A., or Austin, Texas, with his cheap, flashy clothes and his ambivalent come-on: sullen sexiness meets hunted vulnerability. Don't bet that it was all naive and uncalculated; he studied James ...
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