The King!!!

Well, my fans seem to be clamouring for yet another post, its so tiresome to oblige to your fan following...... i wonder how ELVIS must have felt every living moment of his life gone by...i saw one of his tour DVDs today, you know the type, recorded live and then released years after the legend in question passes away...

ELVIS it seems was quite aware and proud of the hysteria his mere presence created,both on and off stage...the DVD did no justice to him in that short span of an hour, i mean really! This is The King we are talking about.I myself have always been a self proclaimed lover of ELVIS, in the purest sense of that word.I consider it demeaning to myself and Him, to call myself a fan. I'm not a fan,i love him,plain and simple.

He was,in my opinion, a rare mix of a performer and an entertainer.The proof is there for all to see.When that smooth flick of his wrist sent the trademark red kerchief around his neck flying, one has to simply see the audience's reaction to comprehend his power.Women swooning all over were a testimony to the craze he held worldwide.ELVIS was also lucky enough to have one of the best bands the world has and will ever see; they were what he called his "rhythm group"....
The man truly enjoyed music,i have conciously every performance of his that i could lay my hands on and i have never seen him standstill.Every part of ELVIS would move to every beat of the ELVIS music as i call it.

He even dabbled in movies for sometime there and though i have never seen any,I'm sure i won't be disappointed when i eventually manage to see one....he was such a phenomenon!That lip curl of his, that impish smile flashed at one all,his cheeky sense of humour,his confidence in getting what and who he wanted as and when he wanted.....some would argue he was arrogant and difficult and threw tantrums,maybe....but why should he not be who he was,he was ELVIS and he knew it.We all are we but very few of us have the luxury to flaunt ourselves for everyone to see...i read this interesting snippet of info the other day; Elvis loved a certain hot dog that was popular in Memphis,so if and when on tour,he would actually have the hot dogs flown in for him in a private jet.That is going a bit too far i guess but if his hot dogs helped create legendary hits like "Jailhouse rocks","Love me tender","The ghetto",etc;then i say,he should have flown in food from other parts of the world too.
Even today in almost every chapel, casino and diner of Las Vegas, we find ELVIS impersonators who preside over weddings,deal out cards and take pictures with tourists from across the world.
Those sideburns,that white jumpsuit,those large buckled belts,those droopy blue eyes that gave the mistaken impression of him being perennially sleepy,all helped put together the phenomenon that ELVIS was,is and will be...till date,we find die hard fans claiming to have "spotted" the king,maybe they really did,then again maybe they are just hopeful like me..