Post by telegonus on May 12, 2018 9:42:05 GMT
I don't think that this is a question that can be answered with genuine authority by anyone. In his early years Elvis was as near to a real king that rock and roll has ever had,--with all due respect to, among others, Bruce Springsteen--and yet from a popularity standpoint the Beatles blew Elvis out of the water circa 1964-65; and while Elvis came back (and the Beatles didn't) he never fully regained his former status.
In time, at the end of the Sixties one could see and hear Elvis Presley on the radio and on television once more, and he still had it even as his material had changed a good deal as to style. His teen idol days were gone. David Cassidy had replaced him. None of this matters in the long term. Elvis's comeback, much of it in Vegas, made him a headliner all over again. His later work contains some of his best and most deeply felt material, and for all the talk about how bloated and drug addicted Elvis had become, when he died, in the summer of 1977, he went out a winner.
In time, at the end of the Sixties one could see and hear Elvis Presley on the radio and on television once more, and he still had it even as his material had changed a good deal as to style. His teen idol days were gone. David Cassidy had replaced him. None of this matters in the long term. Elvis's comeback, much of it in Vegas, made him a headliner all over again. His later work contains some of his best and most deeply felt material, and for all the talk about how bloated and drug addicted Elvis had become, when he died, in the summer of 1977, he went out a winner.