Elvis Presley and his unusual buddy.
I watched "Elvis" the recently-released Baz Lurmann film about The King of Rock n Roll. The lead, played by Austin Butler gives an outstanding performance. You should see it. Butler has the moves, the voice, the look ... but this guy really, really has the moves. As a teenager, I never liked Elvis or his music (I was Motown). I didn't get the hair or the wiggles. I watched his performance on the Ed Sullivan TV show - I didn't understand -- especially the screaming girls. And, even though I didn't really care for Beatles music, I understood their appeal as they played for the first time on a later Sullivan's Sunday night show. Perhaps Elvis set the table for his music competition with those screaming girls. "The Fab Four" and the rest of the British Invasion owe much of their fan success to Elvis. But, enough about "The K