Why was Elvis Presley so popular?
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Because he was THE KING OF ROCK!
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Sure Freddie Mercury was a better singer. But just as people give Nirvana shitloads of (undeserved) credit for being influential, the same can be done for Elvis. Musically, he may be overrated, but he was a great performer and there is no denying the influence he had on music at the time and continues to have even now.
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Elvis was a pop star, and was scene a lot more on TV.  Johnny Cash was a country star and stayed in that circuit.  Rednecks are a lot more lenient when it comes to murder, prison and infidelity apparently.
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It's about Elvis Presley
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closest they will ever be alive is in my stereo!  People who think Elvis is still alive need a new hobby and just accept he is dead.  I dont believe aliens took him or that he faked his own death.  Some people just have too much of an imagination.
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Because musical taste changes, which is a good and bad thing, if we had the same music from 60 years and nothing changed, it would get pretty damn boring!\nThe bad side is that we get "artists" like Britney Spears, Nsync etc who are a change from the artists before them, but we could of done without that change. ;)\n\nAnyways to answer your question, it's still pretty popular, but no where as popular as before.  I have a feeling that The Blues will stay with us for a while, whether we like it or not.
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There is not an Elvis themed amusement park because the Estate of the late Elvis Presley does not want a park except for Graceland.  They make plenty of money on the royalties and thus no park will replace Graceland.  Sorry.
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The answer to this is pretty confusing and you have to delve into the King's psyche. Some facts:\n\n1) He congratulated them when they first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show (though Colonel Tom might have written that).\n\n2) There were provisional plans for them to appear in a movie together (fell through at the last minute).\n\n3) They did meet at Graceland. The story is well recounted and, after a frosty beginning, apparently they all had a good time. They invited him to their concert the next night but he didn't go.\n\n4) Elvis performed a few Beatles songs ('Yesterday', I think, and maybe 'Something').\n\n5) He appears to have reported them either to the FBI or Nixon, I can't remember which. Quite why he did this is not clear, although Lennon was becoming a bit of a 'radical' and he was well against that kind of thing.\n\n6) Several of the Beatles say they had phone conversations with him after their meeting, but they only met face-to-face that once, I think.\n\nJudge from yourself based on all of that. He might just have thought they had little in common as people, and anyway he led an extremely insular existence. The thought that he resented them for 'deposing' him from the 'throne' seems silly to me, as he was hardly still the King when Beatlemania took over and he was said never to have wanted the position. After the initial period of Rock and Roll in the late '50's, Elvis never had a strong attachment to popular trends anyway, slowly coming to prefer ballads, 'MOR' and country. The Beatles just might not have been to his taste musically.
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fat elvis because there was more of him to love ;-)
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Probably he is insanely popular
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Let us put it this way, popular people do not get a lot of attention. \nJust that, the people who get a lot of attention are called popular!!
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Elvis. Always on my mind.
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We love hi movies here too, although I don't think he's as popular as he is in France. I would say that his movies are more cult films here. I certainly like him!  I know that Jerry Lewis is quite popular in France too.
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with every new type of music created there are people who will say its obscene or awful for one reason or another. just look at how Elvis was only shown from the waist up durin TV interview because his dancing was somehow extreamly sexual. People even thought a "syncopayted" beat would make teens lose their inhibitions...it didnt. Older people almost always think young peoples music is a "sin." Dont listen to them
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Interesting but Elvis was an original and I think he'd still want to look that way.
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JAMES BROWN!!!!\n\n>Brown's voice is better than Presley's voice\n>Brown's music is better than Presley's music\n>Brown's band is better than Presley's band\n>Brown's performances is more energetic than Presley's performances\n>Brown played in many movie including THE TUXEDO and ROCKY (I forgot which one) and Elvis never played any movie (that's what i know)\n>Brown is still alive now, but ELVIS IS DEAD!!!!!!
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elvis- without a doubt