Elvis Presley

Discography

Elvis Presley was a great performance artist, perhaps the greatest of all time. Rock 'n roll begins with Elvis Presley; he defined the genre and gave it its power.

Over forty years have past since young Elvis burst upon our senses, a young Prometheus carrying fire from heaven; yet nearly a half-century later, turning on MTV, what do we see in music videos but the offspring of Elvis's original performance.

Those early TV appearances--Ed Sullivan, Milton Berle--will flicker down through the ages as a portal into our times.

In 1956, the world stood transfixed as a young American Southerner, with voice, body and gesture, birthed a new set of possibilities for us all. Elvis was incandescent; he set the parameters of not only popular music, but popular culture, for humanity poised at the edge of the millennium.