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was elvis more famous than you-know-who?

HOW FA­MOUS WAS ELVIS? That was the ques­tion on Quora. Once upon a time, that it was fairly easy to an­swer: Ac­cording to Jerry Hop­kins, whose Elvis – A Bi­og­raphy (1971) was the first bi­og­raphy of the man, a global survey showed that more people in the world rec­og­nized Elvis by his first (or given) name—and that in­cluded you-know-who!—than [Read more] “was elvis more famous than you-know-who?”

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a fivesome of quora questions about elvis answered

SINCE I AM CUR­RENTLY TOILING AWAY at var­ious projects of con­sid­er­able girth—I mean, length—I’m going to post a few short-shorts. To break up things while I am re­searching and writing, I turn to Quora and an­swer ques­tions. Quora is a question-and-answer site where ques­tions are asked by users and then an­swered by other users, ei­ther fac­tu­ally or in the form of opinions. [Read more] “a fivesome of quora questions about elvis answered”

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tell it like it was to the fort lauderdale chamber of commerce

MY AT­TEN­TION re­mains fo­cused on Tell It Like It Was, my new pub­li­ca­tion on Medium. And Tell It Like It Was re­mains fo­cused on music—mostly music of the ’60s but we will get into the rock & roll and rhythm & blues be­fore and after that decade eventually.  [Read more] “tell it like it was to the fort lauderdale chamber of commerce”

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“tell it like it was” on a screen near you now!

MY APOLO­GIES for ne­glecting reg­ular readers of my blogs for the past few months. For­tu­nately, there is a good reason for this that has nothing to do with those silly ru­mors cir­cu­lated by the VRC that I had run off and joined a pro­gres­sive com­mune in Ver­mont left over from those hippie-wannabe days of yore. [Read more] ““tell it like it was” on a screen near you now!”

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lew shiner, elvis, and “steam engine time”

STEAM EN­GINE TIME is the name of a con­cept that many readers should be fa­miliar with. It’s also the title of a short story that most readers will not be fa­miliar with. This story was written by Lew Shiner, who might be known to some readers for novels like Glimpses and De­serted Cities Of The Heart. [Read more] “lew shiner, elvis, and “steam engine time””