An article in New York magazine has Yeasayer Chris Keating saying “I don’t like Elvis . Other than being super good-looking and great performer I don’t know why this dude became an icon. He just ripped off music that was not allowed bto be popular because it was made by black artists.”
Oh dear.
Lessee if we can put this guy straight. Elvis Presley took country music and mixed it with r&b on “Blue Moon Of Kentucky” and invented rock and roll thereby changing the world.
As John Lennon once put it: “Before there was Elvis there was nothing”.
Remember John Lennon, right? He just ripped off music that was not allowed to be popular because it was made by black girl groups.
I find it breathtaking in its ignorance how the lead singing of such a well buzzed band can be so clueless as to a man, Elvis Presley, he, Chris Keating, owes a debt to everytime he, Chris Keating, opens his, Chris Keatings, fat ignorant mouth.