I think this just shows how difficult it can be to appreciate "art" outside of its context.

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Elvis gospel music
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Not the army per se, but the three years he was away didn't help him at all. Then Colonel Parker made some ****ty decisions on his behalf and we got decades of mostly watered down and sappy movies and a commercialised Elvis.

In your opinion, did the army ruin him?
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I've never watched any of his live concerts except for the 1968 Comeback concert. The old Sun sessions are what I prefer, and the Elvis before he went into the army was the best Elvis.

I don't belive it was peer pressure. They just gradually moved with the times. Hippies?
That was a part of the culture of the 60s. They all began to make music in the 50s.
They gradually got tired of the concerts and the deafening screaming that drown out the sound.
They wanted to get into the studio and record what they wanted to create, rather than be locked in hotel rooms and being trotted out like trained monkeys.
They didn't want to wear the matching suits and cute haircuts. They wanted to be the individuals they were.
Their manager died, and that was probably the beginning of the end.
They were very young in the beginning. I can't even begin to imagine what that kind of fame had to have been like when one is in their 20s.
Look at those concerts!
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Love the Stones.. i always feel thd Beatles felt peer pressure to be hippies.
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His stuff before 1972 or so was way better.
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I get what you are saying…
Perhaps one has to be old to enjoy them.
Being the old buzzard I am, I don't care to watch his concerts or the movies, but I do love the recordings.
The music is great in my opinion.
As for the concerts, I suppose that you have to be a diehard fan.
I'm the youngest in our family. I grew up with siblings who were diehard fans.
I preferred the British Invasion… The Beatles, The Stones, and all of the other great groups of the 60s and the 70s.
How do you feel about those?
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Eat my ass
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Costello?