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Topic: Elvis & The Stones at No.1

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10-07-02 12:03 AM

gypsymofo60

Speaks volumes about two things, the immense popularity of both performers that never seems to dwindle with the march of time, and the utterly abyssmal state of current music. I've never been much of an Elvis fan, but no-one can deny A: His popularity, and secondly the influence he had on so many including The Stones(although in that instance his influence was minimal.)Elvis did help,(unwittingly), to further progress the exceptance of 'Black Music',and when it became acceptable paid due credit to it in public. I don't think with the benefit of hindsight, it is fair to accuse him of neglecting to champion 'Black Music', or site it too much as an influence. Artists were very much under the control of managment then, and we have no idea today what the tone of the times were really like. By the time The Stones came along there was a great thirst for 'Black music' in Britain, which was also starting to be the case in it's homeland. Maybe I've reached that stage in life where I'm viewed as just another sad bastard whose had his day musicaly, but I still contend that much of todays music has very little in common with it's predecessors, and as many people on this forum have asked; will the large majority of artists who occupy the charts today still be selling records ten years, never mind twenty, or thirty years down the track from now?