The power of Elvis Presley


"If you like rock 'n'roll, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it"

Elvis Presley (1935-1977) is known as "the King". When he arrived on the pop scene in 1956, he introduced a new rhythm to music, sex, language and fashion. Before his arrival, adolescent kids dressed like their parents. Then Elvis shook his hips and changed everything. This new sex symbol charmed one generation and the same time discouraged another. Boys wanted to be him, girls fell in love with him and, what is more, all their parents hated him. The teenager was born.
He did more than anyone else to invent youth culture. However, he was considered a dangerous threat to society.
John Lennon said "Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis. If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been a Beatles"



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