Yeah, that’s because you have respect for the king. /s
Notice I put his title in lower case, in deference to the One True King, Jesus.
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LOL
Post on.
Actually, I saw a documentary on Elvis where one of his musicians recalled that when some fans at one of his performances held up a big banner that said "Elvis is King!", Presley became very serious and angry, and admonished them from the stage: "NO! Only Jesus Christ is King."
I also read in a bio of Natalie Wood that she dated Presley for a bit and found him interminably boring and straight-arrow, not a bad-boy partier AT ALL; she preferred her men a little wilder! Presley was a hamburger-and-a-movie type date, with a kiss on the cheek saying goodbye at the door, home before midnight.
From everything I've learned or heard about the real Presley, recreational drugs and the rock-star lifestyle of hard partying were NOT his scene; he was more likely to keep his band members up all night long singing Gospel tunes. The drugs Presley stupidly did -- and he did them sure enough -- were prescription drugs that his doctors condoned. (Moral of the story: doctors are as fallible as anyone else; your own common sense is sometimes the best physician you've got -- remember it and you might live longer. And if you can find a doctor who advocates common sense over drugs, cherish him/her and count your lucky stars.)
No, I was never a big Presley fan; I don't have any of his albums and don't plan on getting any. But a few years ago, musing over the pop music of my youth, I realized that I had always taken Presley for granted, made fun of him with everyone else, yet the guy was among the few responsible for many truly beautiful songs from the otherwise mostly horrible 70s.
Besides, an old LedZep-Neil Young-Pink Floyd rock and roller like me thinks Bobby Darin was pretty cool. How far can I stretch before I break? LOL