Author Archive for: ‘Cory Messenger’

Act Naturally: Elvis Presley, the Beatles and “rocksploitation”

I did twenty-nine pictures like that. (Elvis, curling his lip during the 1968 “comeback special.”) Reporter: What do you think of the comment that you’re nothing but a bunch of British Elvis Presleys? Ringo (swiveling his pelvis): It’s not true! It’s not true! (the Beatles’ first US press conference, February 7th, 1964.) …there’s only two kinds of people in the …

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