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August 13 ~Thirty Years ?~In the beginning, there was no music...not that folk believed they were deprived of music. Oh no, they thought there was music.
Then there was Elvis...and they KNEW there was music...and forever after.
Has it really been 30 years since Elvis left the building? Sometimes it seems like yesterday...but it feels like forever.
Being born in 1940, a child of the forties...growing up in the fifties...I was lucky enough to be there at the beginning...and I know exactly where I was and how I reacted on that black day when the music ended...not the American Pie man in a Chevy on a levy dreaming of Peggy Sue...no, something much greater...like being the only American King...but a prisoner of his own fame...being chased by his own demons...demons known forever only to him and to his God...a king whose realm encompassed the entire world...and a king who, having succumbed at such an early age, is like a Bob Dylan song: "Forever Young".
Thirty years? Sometimes it seems like forever...today it feels like yesterday.
We miss you since you left the building, Elvis....
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