There you go. You've got all these so called celeb's saying how devastated they are and how much he influenced their lives, and Joe Public are all looking in and thinking who the **** are they talking about. No disrespect to the guy. He's gone and his family have my sympathies for their loss, but this legend business gets bandied around just too much too easily. He was no Elvis! I've googled quite a bit of him today and he just comes across as a rude twat, and cool in-people seem to think that's cool. I'm not in with the in-crowd and in my opinion he just comes across as an opinioted ignorant twat.
Subjective really. I’m not sure I’d call h M legend but I loved “the fall” mainly because my uncle used to listen to their stuff
What's a legend is subjective from fan to fan. Elvis was no legend in my eyes, didn't write his own songs, poor actor, was just an early day pawn for record companies. A studio puppet and a fraud. Not saying this bloke was a legend either but he had a hell of a lot more artistic talent in his little finger than elvis had in his entire body. I could write a never ending list of bigger talents than elvis very few making legend status.
Aye, I guess its all in the eye of the beholder. Even though we're of an age I actually know nothing about him and can't recall anything about him. I liked punk back in the day but he and the band are just not a part of my memory bank at all.
The Fall aren't a punk band though, they're post punk. Although they formed in the punk era it wasn't until the 80s they became big. They were on the Rough Trade label. Very special label to me.
For people of a certain age, say me, John Lennon and others, Elvis hit Britain in 1955-6 like a thunderbolt, I still love to hear Hound Dog, Dont be Cruel, Heartbreak Hotel preferably unexpectedly, (as I first heard them), all copies as you say, but what copies in their day, yes he was soon eclipsed, for me it was Little Richard who floored him with Rip it Up/Long Tall Sally, but the shock Elvis delivered had to be experienced at a time when the nearest thing we had was Frankie Vaughan, and as our John put it on Juke Box Jury "before Elvis there was nothing" not strictly true of course, but Elvis opened the floodgates.
Agree, although I wasn't a big fan. I was a Billy Fury follower (yes there weren't as many of us around)!!
Fats Domino, Lloyd Price, Ike Turner, Hank Williams, Joe Turner, Louis Jordan, Ray Charles, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Buddy Holly all wipe the floor with the fraud imo.
I saw Billy Fury, nearly, at the Odeon Sunderland, with a Tito Burns road show including Joe Brown, Marty Wilde and the Vernons Girls etc. Billy was the big draw, but took the hump with the crowd from the off. He stopped singing halfway through the opening number, and casually pulled out a flash cigarette case, carefully removed a cigarette and lit up, thinking that he was going to get the better of us. He thought wrong, as the audience instead of being more attentive turned nasty and Billy had to be escorted from the stage. After a brief apology from the compere the show continued without him.
My musical tastes are pretty varied. I try not to close my mind off to any genre. I loved the punk era which I grew up in. Never Mind The Bollocks is my favourite album ever. Just depends what mood I'm in. I choose music to suit the mood. Been listening to a lot of Springsteen, Pink Floyd & Thin Lizzy lately.
Love loads of the punk, new wave, ska and reggae, but can just as easy switch to R&B and even classical.. Variety is the spice of life as the saying goes..
Agree,and a great list with some really true legends, but none of them had anywhere near the initial impact of Elvis, as I remember.
Aye me too. Bad Manners, Madness, Bob Marley to stuff like Dire Straits or Sam Cooke. All sorts really.
Going on the Ska boat from North Shields to amsterdam in march.. Two Ska bands playing both there and back.. Should be a canny weekend with my mates..
Aye, should be a belter trip that mate. I loved Bad Manners as they used a lot of saxophone. How such a big fat bugger as Buster is still alive is beyond me. The sweat would be pissing off him. Seen them live a couple of times.
Did a few trips on the banana boats around Jamaica in the early 60,s, Prince Buster, Don Drummond and the Skatalites, Toots and the Maytals were all up and running, as was one group I don't think I heard until the 70,s The Wailers, missed out there.
Off out tonight to see a band "Drivin Rain" down the Stumble Inn. Any band that does The Bluest Blues by Alvin Lee (Ten Years After) is alright by me.
