Are you 65? Are from a place like Cleveland, or Detroit or Chicago or LA, or as i, Philly(and am also 65). i bluntly say what you just wrote is dead wrong.
i white kid and all the other white city kids were DEEPLY passionately into BLACK Rock and Roll well before any one ever even heard of Elvis.
i Philly kid and i lived it! i grimace when i hear BS remarks like that 'there wouldn't have been R&R if not for Elvis--what rot!.
There i did it, lost my temper----but i don't care, i tried anyway.
But what you wrote was totally wrong and any city white kid in the the cities i named and other cities as well know how wrong you are, in fact, we white kids laughed at the stupid pimply redneck rurals that only got to hear white rock an roll.
Little Richard was da man with us(o.k., now he da Queen with us) and NOT Elvis.
And Hank Ballard and the Cadillacs and Clarence "Frogman" Henry and El Dorados and on and on, before Elvis came upon the scene were big with us.
And i'd rather listen to Chuck Berry and quite a few black fellows rocking than Elvis any day.
Elvis strength was in the performance, the man had legs, and was electric when holding a mike and letting his Pelvis Elvis go wild.Max
He played his video game night and day.
The MAZE of Death.
But that is the game we all are in, the trick, don't believe it.Get above it all and imagine nothing is what it seems.Kill the machine.otraque
