Elvis Presley
This is kind of arse about face, because Elvis was ruined from the start AFAIWC

As a small kid in the 70s, my understanding was as follows:
1. Elvis was The King. Of Rock and Roll, at least. This was evidenced by the constant stating of this cold fact by all the grown-ups.
2. Elvis was the guy in all those terrible films at xmas.
3. Elvis was that fat fuck in the white jumpsuit swigging pepsi in vegas.
4. the punks hated him and laughed whenm he died (nerdy fact: His cause of death was suffocation. He had a seizure on the loo and fell face down into a super shag pile and was too fucked to roll over.)

So fuck him I thought. And fuck everyone else that thinks he's so cool. The fonz was cool! This guy sucked.

My opinions persisted into my mid-20s when I stumbled over the "'68 comeback special".

Absolutely blew me away. Turns out everyone was right all along!
(CADmonkey rollllllllled another one, just like the other one, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 14:16, 8 replies)

The Fonz was cool?
Really?
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 15:28, closed)

Course he fucking was.
Are you an idiot?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 17:36, closed)

Sorry dude, Al was the coolest in that programme.
And Joanie needed one up the back passage. FACT!
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 17:44, closed)

You prolly fancied Richie Cunning-ham.
(I'm calling you a woofter here)
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 17:46, closed)

He never meant shit to me.

(sarcastic fringehead feet of clay, buns of steel, head of lettuce, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 15:46, closed)

Me neither
but the 68 show demonstrates what everyone was getting so excited about.

He was very insecure about his career when he took to the stage. The man is working, rather than hamming up his own hits in a "yes, it really is me" kind of way.

It's worth watching, if only to listen to primal grunting and moaning of one or two members of the female audience. I bet they know who they are.
(CADmonkey rollllllllled another one, just like the other one, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 16:20, closed)

Public LOLnemy.

I was a hip hop DJ for 15 years but on balance I prefer Elvis Presley to the tedious hectoring of Charles D and his simpleton friends. Great beats though.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jun 2013, 17:47, closed)

Yeah, I saw that too
Presley meant nothing to me but I happened to catch a later repeat of that show on TV in good old grainy black and white.

Showed you how good he really had been.
(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Fri 7 Jun 2013, 23:36, closed)