Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Elvis 75

I picked up a digital copy of Elvis 75, and truth be told, "Viva Las Vegas" had never sounded better to me than in the dying hours of CES on Sunday morning. However it wasn't until I got back into town and looked at the physical album cover, proudly proclaiming Elvis Presley to be "The Once and Future King" that I had cause to shake my head. Really? England gets the mythical Arthur, who will come in their darkest hour to lead the English nation back into the fabled golden era of moral and political unity of Camelot - the Americans get Elvis, to lead them back into the golden glittered hedonism of Vegas?