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Bill, Recent news about the last will & testament of "The French Elvis", Johnny Hallyday, suggests additional material you might mine. This clip might be a good starting point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_FSfjv0ccE Barry On Wed, 7 Feb 2018 23:34:04 +0000, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Thanks, Doug. Many cases of the apprentice outstripping the master, even if >that was not the objective. Presley peaked, so it is said, at Sun in the >50s. Costello started out edgy, extended his range, without slipping into >the mainstream and continued to write. Did Presley write anyhing himself? > >Bill > >On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 at 5:37 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Enjoyed it, too, Bill; a real contrast there (yet the younger took that >> name in homage as much as (his real) snark. >> >> But how personalities react & then react… >> >> Doug >> >> > On Feb 6, 2018, at 11:26 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> >> wrote: >> > >> > Thanks, Sheila, Andrew. The King was a drip to me. MacManus lively, >> > irascible, a risk taker whose later works lost me mainly when they got >> > over-earnest. Whoda thunk he’d turn out to be an amiable nightshow host! >> > It’s a point of difference for most anyway, which Elvis you’d have on >> your >> > toast, so to speak. >> > >> > Bill >> > >> > On Wed, 7 Feb 2018 at 2:11 pm, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> >> wrote: >> > >> >> Ah, two sides of Elvis! I much prefer the bespectacled one - he can sing >> >> outside the pop charts. >> >> >> >> Andrew >> >> >> >> < >> >> >> https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail >> >>> >> >> Virus-free. >> >> www.avast.com >> >> < >> >> >> https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail >> >>> >> >> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> >> >> >> >> On 7 February 2018 at 08:30, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Pretty intriguing, Bill. Thank you for the portraiture! >> >>> >> >>> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 2:07 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask] >> > >> >>> wrote: >> >>> >> >>>> Never close >> >>>> >> >>>> Elvised apart >> >>>> >> >>>> in the 70s >> >>>> >> >>>> one candle holding >> >>>> >> >>>> the swivel-hipped >> >>>> >> >>>> Wooden heart denier >> >>>> >> >>>> the other rolling with >> >>>> >> >>>> the Pumped up >> >>>> >> >>>> bespectacled >> >>>> >> >>>> Detective watcher >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> Sister one dumped >> >>>> >> >>>> her own King >> >>>> >> >>>> Left him to his meat >> >>>> >> >>>> in the bush >> >>>> >> >>>> Set up camp >> >>>> >> >>>> with her issue >> >>>> >> >>>> Danced with herself >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> Sister two >> >>>> >> >>>> already encumbered >> >>>> >> >>>> at stage Costello >> >>>> >> >>>> cleared out >> >>>> >> >>>> left issue >> >>>> >> >>>> hooked up >> >>>> >> >>>> with Joe Strummerite >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> One still passes on platitudes >> >>>> >> >>>> Two leaves that sort of thing to Joe >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> bw >> >>>> >> >>>> 7.2.18 >> >>>> >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Andrew >> >> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ >> >> Books available through Walleah Press >> >> http://walleahpress.com.au >> >> >> >> Douglas Barbour >> [log in to unmask] >> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ >> >> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations >> 2 (UofAPress). >> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). >> Listen. If (UofAPress): >> >> >> >> >> Swept snow, Li Po, >> by dawn’s 40-watt moon >> to the road that hies to office >> away from home. >> >> Lorine Niedecker >>