black musicians like ray charles rufus thomas from memphis memphis water or b.b. king and he actually prided himself on not sounding like anyone else he managed to mix blues in our own even with gospel but also with a lot of country and he was quite indifferent to a lot of the usual social distinctions at the time he was criticized for that as well b.b. king once out of all of that that he knew that music is like water off not exclusive to black or white or to any color and i think that a lot of the sentiment like what we just heard in the film there is obviously directed at the music industry which continues to be very very synced to this day and the fact that elvis and a lot of white marketers and managers profited a lot while there were a lot of people in the background who were serving for the inspiration but apparently elvis himself actually rejected the title king of rock n roll when it was first applied to him back in one thousand sixty nine and he said he could never
michael keaton s movie about a washed-up actor who played a former superhero cleaned up nicely. birdman got seven no, ma am nass including best comedy or musical. meanwhile in the drama category, boyhood fox catcher selma and the theory of everything proving very popular. and also the imitation game are in the running. and an 11-year-old picked up her first nomination for best actress in a comedy or musical for her role in the new version of annie. and hollywood veteran meryl streep on the other end of the spectrum got her 29th golden globe nod for into the woods. now it is an exhibition fit for the king. we re talking about elvis presley, better known as the king of rock n roll. the biggest european exhibition of elvis clothes, personal
by michele bachmann. the minnesota congresswoman and presidential hopeful getting her facts wrong about the king of rock n roll as folks mark 34 years since the passing of elvis presley. bachmann told a crowd this on the stage. before we get started let s say happy birthday to elvis birthday today. happy birthday. he played you a little bit of promisedland when we pulled up but you can t do better than elvis expressly and we thought we would celebrate his birthday. as we get started the celebrating, take our country back. bill: as you know, one problem there. it wasn t august. it was january when he was born. august is when he passed. bachmann corrected herself at a later campaign stop for that.