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Elvis was known as the King of Rock and Roll until his premature death from a heart attack in the Seventies. The US-born singer remains a popular figure to this day and each year more than half-a-million people flock to his Graceland estate, in Memphis, Tennessee. Elvis, who served in the US Army and was sent overseas to Germany, was staunchly against those who opposed the Vietnam War.
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Cressida is an actress who recently played Sheila Caffell in the ITV drama White House Farm. She described her “perfectly imperfect” wedding to property investor Harry Wentworth-Stanley, who is the son of the Marchioness of Milford Haven, a former Tatler Social Editor. The couple tied the knot in a very intimate ceremony with just 30 people in attendance.
In our censorious age, it s worth thinking of all the revered writers, artists and musicians of the past who might find themselves cancelled if they were alive today.
Would John Lennon be cancelled? Today, he is considered a saint, but in our society sanctity is conditional on death: the living are less readily forgiven.
In his youth, Lennon possessed an almost pathological distaste for the disabled. Fifties Liverpool was home to many people who had suffered amputations during the war. John would ridicule them, imitating their uncertain movements as they tried to cross the streets. His biographer, Philip Norman, records 17 different occasions when John taunted the handicapped.