[78-L] Elvis [FWD]

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Harkin" <harkinmike at yahoo.com>
> --- On Wed, 4/8/09, Bill Knowlton <udmacon1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> From: Bill Knowlton <udmacon1 at hotmail.com>
>> "About the nearest parallel to this in anyone in more
>> recent times, I'd think, would be Elvis. If he hadn't died
>> how and when he did, would he still be so big, and so hailed
>> as a kind of god all these years later?"
>> As I recall, for years Elvis was pretty much a has-been
>> when he died so suddenly. And with his departure so went the
>> public's memory that this was the case.
> How could he be a has-been since he never was????
> 
Well,in a sense he "was"...! He was a "sex symbol" to a gazillion or so
female "baby boomerettes"...and THEY put him into the "big time!"

Of course, there was also the "nostalgia factor"...?!

...stevenc