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None of those people deserve to be called the King of Rock'n'Roll, but Elvis does.
I'm not saying the people I listed deserve to be called 'King of Rock and Roll'. Just that they're far more deserving of the title than Elvis. I don't think anybody deserves that title. (with the possible exception of Lennon. All of the people I listed embody rebellion, sex, drugs, general mentalness and musical innovation far more than that blue-suede reactionary.
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For one thing, none of those people would be around were it not for Elvis, John Lennon said himself: "Before Elvis, there was nothing."
"If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry" - John Lennon.
Rock and Roll would have still happened without Elvis. Just slightly differently. Maybe better. maybe worse. Probably just differently though.
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...he was the one that spearheaded Rock'n'Roll music, he didn't just play rockabilly, he didn't just play blues based music, he didn't just play country based music, he didn't just play folk or gospel or just rock'n'roll, he played all of it, put together in one package...
So did many of the pioneers of rock and roll, Lewis, Berry, Haley, little richard, and others all blended and jumped genres.
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...he's the reason that Jimi Hendrix is even considered Rock'n'Roll (if not he would have been put under the electric blues genre).
I'm not convinced. Although Hendrix's music is very blues based, taken in the context of Berry, the Shadows, Clapton, the Who, the Beatles, and others his music would probably still be interpreted as Rock and Roll. Maybe though.
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Elvis made Rock'n'Roll palatable to the white parents...
How so? Because he was white and many other prominent rock 'n' roll pioneers were black? Declaring someone the king of rock and roll on the basis that his fan's parents were racist does not seem eminently sensible to me.
But ultimately, I'm not saying elvis wasn't important, just that he's been over-hyped beyond all reason by The Elvis Industry. And that I don't particularly like him as a person, his music, his now-laughable pseudo-rebellion, his politics. I just think the people i listed epitomise rock and roll, and what rock and roll should be far far better than Elvis, and make far better 'role models' (for want of a better term) for aspiring rock stars.
But I agree with you utterly about Travis: they're just the poor man's Ocean Colour Scene, who are, in turn, a 2nd rate Oasis imitation, who are, in turn, a cheap imitation of the beatles, and other good, non-boring musicians. |
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