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★ Fame & Famous

Elvis was like Huck Finn exploring.  At night he would slip in to the black churches and listen to gospel music and to sermons.  ibid.

 

Elvis, he longed to be a great gospel singer.  ibid.  Tom Petty           

 

What happened in Memphis at that time was a convergence of forces: the convergence of radio, DJs and artists.  ibid.  Ferris  

 

But the basic set up when it was just Elvis, Scotty, Bill and a beautiful echo tape delay, it was all you needed.  With that voice you could do anything.  ibid.  Robbie Robertson, musician

 

And I knew I could help him exploit his talents all over the world.  ibid.  Colonel Tom Parker  

 

Elvis was able to bring a value to the presentation of black music.  ibid.  David Porter, Stax Records       

 

Elvis’s first television appearances were earth-shattering.  He sang at a moment in the history of the south in the early 50s when his music was truly a revolutionary sound.  ibid.

 

He was basically a good-natured southern kid but he was on a mission to deliver this music.  ibid.  Ferris

 

He goes into the army which is where he gets the pep pills for the first time, the methedrine, to stay up on watch.  ibid.  Petty

 

So he was gonna follow what Tom Parker said.  He’d been right so far.  ibid.  Prescilla

 

 

The 68 Special really showed Elvis’s career in its entirety.  They took Elvis’s original songs and made them more modern.  Elvis: The Searcher II, dude

 

The Sinatra Show – it was a very conservative move at the time.  He was just trying to find his place after coming out of the army.  He basically had to believe in himself and that’s what Elvis did.  ibid.  Springsteen

 

He had to make three movies a year.  So these soundtrack albums became a big part of the contractual obligation to release music for RCA.  ibid.  Jackson   

 

The movies were very harmful to his image.  ibid.  Petty  

 

The Colonel was not taking him to the place he needed to be.  ibid.  Prescilla       

 

Las Vegas: It worked great in the beginning – just got to be same old stuff.  ibid.  Ronnie Tutt, drummer    

 

1971: 157 concerts; 1972: 165 concerts.  ibid.  captions   

 

By this time he had started to turn to prescription drugs to keep himself going.  He was on a relentless wheel of performance to travel, and you started to see the stress of that.  (Pop Music & Rock n Roll & Celebrity & Star & Fame)  ibid.  Alan Light, writer         

 

 

For decades they were icons.  Their work was loved by millions.  But behind the fame and glamour they were monsters hiding in plain sight.  Celebrities who were so powerful they felt untouchable.  National Treasure, National Disgrace, captions, Channel 5 2022

 

Stuart Hall, Rolf Harris, Gary Glitter and Jimmy Savile: four superstars symbolising British entertainment in the 60s and 70s, protected by a shield of fame and celebrity when no-one questioned them.  ibid.  

 

19 cases of sexual abuse carried out during recordings of Top of the Pops.  ibid.   

 

Operation Yewtree uncovered 214 offences committed by Savile across the country between 1955 and 2009.  However, the police were inundated with accusations relating to other celebrities who were still alive.  ibid.  

 

Despite initially protesting his innocence, faced with all the evidence, Hall changed his plea.  Stuart Hall was sentenced to 15 months in prison after pleading guilty to multiple offences against ten young girls dating back to the 1960s.  A sentenced later doubled by the Court of Appeal.  ibid.    

 

 

The Eclipse results were announced in November.  Literally overnight Einstein became world famous.  The first scientist-celebrity of the twentieth century.  This was the birth of Einstein the Icon.  The embodiment of scientific wisdom.  A friendly incomprehensible sage.  Horizon: Einstein Fame, BBC 1996

 

 

Fame requires every kind of excess.  I mean, true fame.  A Devouring neon.  Long journeys across grey space.  Danger.  The edge of every void.  Understand the man who must inhabit these extreme regions.   Even if half-mad, he is absorbed into the public’s total madness.  Even if fully rational, a bureaucrat in hell, a secret genius of survival, he is sure to be destroyed by the public’s contempt for survival.   Don DeLillo, Great James Street, cited Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd, Sky Arts 2024 

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