Elvis & Lindsey

[iamnotafraid]

I just received the new book Elvis: Vegas '69 by Ken Sharp.
And as I was glancing over it tonight I found a little surprise, a comment
from Mr. Lindsey Buckingham. It's something many of us have heard Lindsey
say before about Elvis, but incase you missed it:

I first became interested in rock and roll after hearing "Heartbreak Hotel" by Elvis Presley. I was only six years old at the time and my brother brought home the single. The music was so powerful and I just loved it. It sparked the imagination of many of us. My brother was a great aficionado of early
rock and roll and I was lucky to have someone old enough to be buying all
those great Elvis 45's. I would spend hours in my brother's bedroom
listening to all those early Elvis songs over and over. If fact I learned how
to play guitar listening to those Elvis records. Elvis synthesized elements
of R&B and country an put it into a form that was acceptable for a broad
white audience. He made it exciting and he was able to be the messenger
of that music, which was still completely subversive but wasn't perceived
as too subversive for the masses.