28 years later, and Elvis is still dead

[no name no slogan]

January 8, 1935 — August 16, 1977



Rest in Peace, you big fat fsck.

[LynneSin]

1. Shit you really depressed me now

The idiot I was with for almost 8 years, his birthday is today

[northzax]

2. is not!

you take that back.

[LincolnMcGrath]

3. Parents of 14 yr old girls everywhere breathe a sigh of relief!

:spank:

[LynneSin]

20. Yes, but Ted Nugent is still alive

so parents of 14-year old girls better keep track!

[WeRQ4U]

4. Elvis Sucks

God I loathe that music.

[jobycom]

9. You know what they say

[WeRQ4U]

10. Yeah, well the "Dukes of Hazzard" also made 58 million bucks

People aren't always right.

[jobycom]

11. And I plan to see that this weekend!

People are never wrong when it comes to taste. 50 mil have different taste than you. Didn't make 'em wrong.

[WeRQ4U]

15. Well I'm not going to get into a spat about it.

I just think he sucks/ed. lol.

You can listen to whatever you want. :toast:

[jobycom]

16. That's okay. I hated Lord of the Rings

So I know how it goes. :-)

[Robeson]

5. Wow, I'm all shook up.

[xxqqqzme]

6. I was on a train w/ my kids

and there was a conductor complaining that the many tickets he bought in hopes of making extra money was now gone. His elvis futures had vanished!

[Wickerman]

7. In Memoriam

In Memoriam

Elvis, what happened?
What happened was you died
You showed us how to live and then you died
And it was not a pretty sight

And you made us feel like fools for believing what we saw
Like how you loved religion and how you loved your ma
And Dr. Nick, that evil prick, for all that thorazine
And Colonel Parker kept his hand at making things look clean
Your acting out a public life was better than your films
Colonel Parker took your hand, and he catered to your whims
You let him be your teddy bear and he made you Frankenstein
And then you died, you stupid ass, and left it all behind

Well, Elvis, what happened?
What happened was you died
But thanks to RCA we still get pieces of the pie
You multiplied

It must have done your dad some good, 'cause he seemed to egg you on
'Til you tantalize in glory until all of you was gone
And adoration was a burden, and the public was a wraith
You must have died one tortured soul for having so much faith

Elvis, what happened?
What happened was you died
You showed us how to live and then you died
And it was not a pretty sight

But I still visit Graceland whenever I'm in town
And up the walk and through the gates and I lay my flowers down
Among the thousand million garlands that are laying on the ground
And wish that you could be here with us to see what we're going through
When we read that Goldman book and we think we misread you
And then you died like Lenny Bruce after he'd given up his chase
I only wish you were around to see the look on all the faces

When they say

Elvis, what happened?
What happened was you died
You showed us how to live and then you died
And it was not a pretty sight

Elvis, what happened?
What happened was you died
You showed us how to live and then you died
And it was not a pretty sight

Song written 1985 by "Mr. Bonus", appeared on the compilation album Luxury Condos Coming To Your Neighborhood Soon.

[no name no slogan]

14. Cool lyrics!!!

Elvis died on my 8th birthday. back at school that fall, damn near every kid was wearing a new "Elvis-- The King Lives On" t-shirt.

of course, we barely knew who he was, most of us being members in good standing of the KISS ARMY :silly:

[jobycom]

8. Define "dead."

He's still got a better career than most living singers.

[no name no slogan]

12. no longer respirating?

at least that's the clinical definition, IIRC :+

and i agree, i'd take a crappy record by Elvis over a "good" record by Britney Spears

[jobycom]

18. Yeah, well, by THAT definition, I guess

:-)

[edbermac]

13. Elvis died in the army...

Said John Lennon on hearing the news...but Early Sun Records Elvis; he was a killer!

She drew out all her money from the Southern Trust
And put her little boy on a Greyhound Bus
Leaving Memphis with a guitar in his hand
On a one-way ticket to the promised land
Hey little girl with the red dress on
There's party tonight down in Memphis down
I'll be going down there if you need a ride
The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died

We drove down into Memphis, the sky was hard and black
Up over the ridge came a white Cadillac
They'd drawn out all his money and they laid him in the back
A woman cried from the roadside "Ah he's gone, he's gone"
They found him slumped up against the drain
With a whole lot of trouble running through his veins
Bye-bye Johnny
Johnny bye-bye
You didn't have to die
You didn't have to die

[jobycom]

17. He did two of my favorites after the army

In the Ghetto, and Suspicious Minds. But I know what you mean.

[MsAnthropy]

19. Poster child for sqandered talent

Think of what he could have done if he'd never net Col. Parker or drugs.

[no name no slogan]

21. so true. so freaking true.

and a :kick: for the King. Rest In Peace.

[no name no slogan]

22. one last dead Elvis kick

[trackfan]

23. A poem I wrote about that day...

Albin's Drugs

This I recall from a day in
August of 'seventy-seven:
Hollywood Way and Magnolia
Boulevard meet a few blocks from
here, in the city of Burbank.
Now there's a Thrifty, but once the
name of the store on the southeast
corner - a drugstore - was Albin's.
Then, long ago, in the summer,
Danny O'Heron had many
flyers he needed delivered.
Placing the flyers on people's
cars, homes and lawns was my job. I
stopped to get lunch at the in-store
counter at Albin's. I heard a
customer taunting the waitress,
"Elvis, your hero, your lover's
dead." I cared little, as rock for
me had begun with the Beatles.
Elvis had seemed like an old-time
idol, not unlike Sinatra.
That I recall from a day in
August of 'seventy-seven.