![]() He walked in and was really looking good, he wasn’t overweight or drugged out. I got in this private elevator and it was Chubby Checker, Linda Lovelace, Liza Minnelli and me, going up to see Elvis. ![]() I was invited to come up and meet him in 1971 in Vegas. He seemed to only give lip service to the essence of his songs.”Īlice Cooper: “I think everybody puts a little of Elvis into their show. And although he worked hard and well that night, he gave the impression of a man not in total control of his chemical future. Seeing him in Vegas, in his white jumpsuit, was very interesting, in terms of seeing how music that starts off with a fire in somebody’s belly ends up being an inferno in somebody’s wallet. Jethro Tull mastermind Ian Anderson: “Well, I went to see Elvis at one of his comeback dates in Las Vegas in 1969. When you listen to Elvis, it’s almost like country music, there’s a simplistic unreality to it all.” But when you hear him, it’s not like Nat King Cole singing a song. More than that, he was very warm and nice. He was a gorgeous Adonis of a man and a great guy, very, very elegant looking. Tony Bennett: “Elvis was the first Coca-Cola bottle, the first human Coca-Cola bottle. Regardless of whether he was an innovator or not, the fact that he was the catalyst for that stuff is enough to put him in the pantheon of giants.” So I never heard the original Sun recordings until a few years ago and that stuff just kicked my ass completely. He was so ubiquitous, I figured there were so many other more obscure things I should devote myself to. San Diego guitar great Mike Keneally: “It took me forever to even understand his appeal he was never a topic of study for me. What made it distasteful is that we had people who could do it better than him, but who couldn’t be accepted at that time because of the color of their skin.” 1 because of his rendition of what some black people sounded like. Jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis: “To me, Elvis represented somebody who - because our country was not ready then to embrace the black artist and make them No. So it was kind of like a civil rights breakthrough, as I see it.” ![]() And then the world caught on to the original artists Elvis and The Beatles were inspired by. They were into the grooves and soul of black music and introduced it to the world at large. Because it’s like it was appropriation, but there was a certain window that was opened that never would have been opened without people like Elvis and The Beatles. Neo-soul singer Maxwell: “It’s a very touchy subject. ![]() You can’t listen to any music now without tracing the umbilical cord back to blues and R&B. Even though I’m aware that he’s influenced people who influenced people who influenced me, when it comes to feeling connected, I’m just not.”įleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood: “The reality is that black R&B and blues was the instigator that sparked this whole fire. There aren’t that many artists that have affected me on a deep level and he’s not one of them. Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro: “I respect what Elvis did, but I’m pretty much indifferent to the whole thing. ![]()
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