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28 Years Ago Today

ScarletKnight41 Aug 16 2005 10:31 AM

Elvis Presley died. Or did he? I never got the fascination with Elvis. Perhaps it's a generational thing?

Yancy Street Gang Aug 16 2005 12:01 PM

It's not entirely generational. There are many who are too young to remember Elvis who revere him. I have a theory that Elvis is the 20th Century Jesus. The reported post-death sightings of him will add to the legend. Years from now, people will really think he came back from the dead. (Just like now, people already are disbelieving the Holocaust and the moon landing.) In time, the cult that's formed around him will either die out or continue to grow. And if it's the latter, it will take on more and more of the trappings of religion. And where it goes from there is anybody's guess.

Edgy DC Aug 16 2005 12:02 PM

I'm heading to Vegas and betting that won't happen. How many hundreds of years before I can collect?

Yancy Street Gang Aug 16 2005 01:19 PM

One or two hundred should be sufficient. I went to Graceland back in 1993. And while many of the visitors were tourists, there were more than a few who could better be described as pilgrims. I figure that if Scientology can become a religion, so can Elvisology. I'm not predicting that it will happen, but I think that it is a possibility.

TheOldMole Aug 16 2005 09:51 PM

Here's a song they said could never be written, and they swore would never be sung There's a hundred pickets outside this club, and they all want to see me hung Yes, before they'd let me sing this song, they'd like to beat me senseless, Of a man who left this mortal coil on a toilet seat in Memphis. But I'm here tonight to spread the word, and I want you all to listen, I'm not preaching Elvis dead, I'm preaching Elvis risen. It's the last temptation of Elvis And he wants you all to believe The last temptation of Elivs Elvis loved us far too much to leave. Well, upon this rock I build my church, it's the jailhouse rock he sung us When Elvis saw we were lonesome tonight, he rose and walked among us And those sweat-stained scarves he gave us, making relics out of keepsakes As the King takes on the King of Kings, in the Resurrection Sweepstakes It's the last temptation of Elvis And he wants you all to believe The last temptation of Elivs Elvis loved us far too much to leave. There's an old hotel where the bellhop weeps and our congregation meets Two or three together in his name, at the end of Lonely Street Let us sing Hit number 58, it's his all-time greatest song 50 million Elvis worshippers, well, you know they can't be wrong Take, eat this pill, it'll make you well, it'll save your mortal soul, And around your neck, on a string of beads, hang the blessed toilet bowl. It's the last temptation of Elvis And he wants you all to believe The last temptation of Elivs Elvis loved us far too much to leave.