The importance of Elvis

Elvis is the # 2 best-selling music artists of all time (USA). It 's still of the Beatles, with units sold over 118 million euro (albums, singles, cassettes, CD) and is now the biggest selling solo artist in U.S. history.

There is so much too, and that might already been written about this American music icon, Elvis Presley. So I had to write about the cultural impact of the music of Elvis and society as a whole.

I was discussing the history of rock n 'Guitartist roll with my friend and the subject of Elvis came. I said that John Lennon had once said. "Before Elvis there was nothing"

My friend immediately bristled concept. "No way", he replied: "He did not invent anything ... Chuck Berry and Little Richard plays rock 'n roll of Elvis ... before he got them. Chuck Berry is Elvis' ass!"

I told my friend I thought he'd missed the point. John Lennon and all the others, includingElvis knew where to lay the roots of rock 'n roll - in the African-American music.

Elvis said it himself. "'The black people singing and playing as I do now, man, for several years, I know," Elvis told reporters in 1956. "I took it from them. Down in Tupelo, Mississippi, I hear old Arthur Crudup bang his box, as I do now, and I said if I was on the spot where I saw ever heard, like all old Arthur felt, I'd be a man Music like no -. '"TimeMagazine

(Some have argued that Elvis is the 1954 cover of bluesman Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup is "That's All Right" the first definitive rock and roll While the registration request can be accepted a lot of Elvis fans and Elvis was a -. make the first Rock and Roll Records - to re-record most historians trace the "first" R & R until 1951, and a song called "Rocket 88" in the studio of Sam Phillips' Memphis, where Elvis recorded later.

"1 March 1951 - Sam Phillipsrecord "Rocket 88" with singer Jackie Brenston and Ike Turner Band for Chess Records. This is the first record widely regarded as Rock and Roll record. "- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)

Elvis did not invent rock and roll. But he was an innovator, but transfusion popular music of the fifties with black music, gospel ... Soul (when white crooner like Frank Sinatra, Pat Boone, Eddie Fisher and others in his profession) controls.

And that was transfusedimportant part of anti-segregation that he was preparing at that time and that ultimately led to the civil rights movement ... and desegregation.

Although the contribution of Elvis' to rock and roll was huge, his contribution to her generation even bigger.