Daniel Spicer
, June 14th, 2021 06:13
In our monthly subscriber s only essay Daniel Spicer has a Proustian rush listening to Elvis Presley s career concluding single Way Down, is reminded of the fragility of existence and is catapulted back into a childhood of ageing teds, biker gangs and wyrd Cornish magic.
My copy of Elvis Presley’s
The 50 Greatest Hits doesn’t get played very often. In fact, it really only gets a spin on Christmas Day, somewhere between Frank Sinatra’s
Twenty Golden Greats and a four-CD box set of
Remember Then: Vocal Group Classics From The Doo Wop Era. Yet it contains multitudes. A double CD, bought around the turn of the millennium, it traces Elvis’s career chronologically, from the explosive young rebel forging a shocking new hybrid of country and R&B in the mid-50s with ‘That’s All Right’ and ‘Mystery Train’, to unassailable rock & roll touchstones such as ‘Hound Dog’ and ‘Jailhouse Rock’, and through subsequent years of su
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