Elvis looms 30 years on
China Daily | Updated: 2007-08-13 06:46
Thirty years ago, on the eve of his sudden death at 42 at his Graceland mansion, a bloated and drug-addled Elvis Presley was also unintentionally on the threshold of the ultimate career make-over.
Since the mid-1950s, Elvis had recorded dozens of seminal songs, starred in more than 30 Hollywood movies and reinvented himself in Las Vegas as a kind of all-American superhero in a gilded jumpsuit.
Toward the end, "The King" was a shadow of the performer who electrified audiences and revolutionized popular music.
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