The building has left Elvis...
Thursday, August 16th, 2007 10:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanBlimey, Elvis is dead! When did that happen?
So it’s thirty years today since he waddled into his favourite khazi in Graceland and failed to come out again. Three decades on, medical science has reached a point where we know that eating deep-fried peanut butter and jam sandwiches made with an entire loaf and a couple of pounds of butter is not likely to do much for your long-term health. The 1970s were a much simpler time, though, and only weirdy-beardies went near tofu and bean sprouts.1 Thus it was that the King of Rock’n’Roll died with his trousers around his ankles and butter on his chin; an ignominious end to the man who stole Carl Perkins’ thunder and went on to become the greatest exponent of popular music of all time2
Seriously, folks. Thirty years. Get over it.
1I am joking, of course. The situation has not changed a great deal except that the weirdy-beardies now only rarely wear kaftans in the street.
2Except for the Beatles. And Bob Dylan. And Roy Orbison. And The Everleys. And the Rolling Stones. And The Clash. And The Police. And The Bay City Rollers3
3Bay City Rollers? Where’d they come from?
So it’s thirty years today since he waddled into his favourite khazi in Graceland and failed to come out again. Three decades on, medical science has reached a point where we know that eating deep-fried peanut butter and jam sandwiches made with an entire loaf and a couple of pounds of butter is not likely to do much for your long-term health. The 1970s were a much simpler time, though, and only weirdy-beardies went near tofu and bean sprouts.1 Thus it was that the King of Rock’n’Roll died with his trousers around his ankles and butter on his chin; an ignominious end to the man who stole Carl Perkins’ thunder and went on to become the greatest exponent of popular music of all time2
Seriously, folks. Thirty years. Get over it.
1I am joking, of course. The situation has not changed a great deal except that the weirdy-beardies now only rarely wear kaftans in the street.
2Except for the Beatles. And Bob Dylan. And Roy Orbison. And The Everleys. And the Rolling Stones. And The Clash. And The Police. And The Bay City Rollers3
3Bay City Rollers? Where’d they come from?