Song excerpts by the Johnny Mann Singers and Vocal Majority intermingled with original poem by Tom Hammett. Illustrated with coordinated pictures.
June 28, 2009
The Value of a Johnny Mann Jingle: Johnny Mann and Wife Receive National Flag
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Bono's epic tribute to Elvis - a handy guide | From the Guardian | The Guardian
A poem about Elvis written and performed by Bono is to be broadcast on Radio 4 next week. Elvis: American David was first published in 1995, but this recording was made two years ago, when Bono decided to read the whole 850-word poem aloud during an interview. It has been described by the interviewer as "effective, but bonkers".
That's not much of a review. Surely verse by a poet such as the U2 front man deserves a closer reading? Below, some extracts, explicated.
Bono's tribute to Elvis. Photograph: Guardian 1 The disregard for the traditional rules of capitalisation is maintained throughout. This may echo the unconventional orthography of ee cummings, or he may have composed it on his phone. Who knows?
2 This is a clear reference to the fact that the street address of Graceland is 3764 Elvis Presley Boulevard, although this stretch of Highway 51 South was only rechristened in 1972 and Elvis died in 1977. He was said to be underwhelmed by the honour, but he did record an album titled From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee in 1976.
3 By all accounts Elvis did have a monkey – a chimp, actually – but it was called Scatter. The animal was fond of alcohol and looking up women's skirts, and he bit. Elvis was wont to refer to him as "you coconut-headed little motherfucker".
4 It was actually one second-world war commemorative Colt .45 pistol, although, for security reasons no presentation took place. Elvis requested the 1970 meeting with Nixon in a rambling, handwritten letter: "I have no concerns or motives other than helping the country out," he wrote. "So I wish not to be given a title or an appointment. I can and will do more good if I were made a Federal Agent-at-Large."
Bono's tribute to Elvis. Photograph: Guardian 5 The unlikely theory that Elvis might not have died in 1977 gained some currency toward the end of the last century, but today most scholars accept that even if Elvis had remained alive, he'd be dead by now.
6 Bono wrote the poem in 1995, shortly after the Spastics Society changed its name to Scope, in response to complaints that the old word for cerebral palsy had become offensive. Was he making a timely allusion to the degradation of a former medical term to the status of playground insult? Or was he merely abetting this degradation?
Bono's tribute to Elvis. Photograph: Guardian 7 The bible chapter ends "And now abideth faith, hope, Love, these three; but the greatest of these is Love", and was said to be Elvis's favourite. The story of Elvis simultaneously reading the bible and shooting out one his three TVs possibly apocryphal.
8 What? Where? Why killer bees? Alas, we may have to simply accept that the poet was willing to sacrifice clarity in order to find a rhyme for cheese.
9 A late nod to accusations of racism surrounding Elvis, paraphrased from the Public Enemy song Fight the Power. Some websites have erroneously rendered this line "don't mean shit to chucked", which just proves they didn't check to make sure everything made sense, perhaps understandably. Honestly, where would you start?
Bono's tribute to Elvis. Photograph: Guardian 10 This is the 104th appearance of the word "elvis". This leads us to certain questions: what, for example, would the poem be like if you took all the elvises out? How would it read if you took everything else out, so that only the elvises remained? And what would happen if you then removed them, so that nothing remained? Would that solve the problem?
Dead profitable: Jackson memorabilia rivals Elvis
Dead profitable: Jackson memorabilia rivals Elvis
Michael Jackson fan Larry Edwards reacts to a bid at Julien's Auction in Planet Hollywood Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The auction house had expected their Michael Jackson memorabilia to go for around $10,000 - but the pieces went for $205,000. Photo: AP
June 28, 2009 - 3:17PM
Like Elvis before him, Michael Jackson is topping the charts in death as in life.
And the King of Pop is rivalling the King of Rock 'n' Roll in another category as well -- posthumous sales of memorabilia.
Over 45,000 Michael Jackson-related items were being offered for sale on Saturday at online auction house eBay.com, two days after the sudden death of the singer at his rented Beverly Hills home at the age of 50.
They ranged from web domain names -- michaeljacksonmemorial.com, for example -- at hopeful prices of $US1 million ($A1.24 million) or more to copies of US newspapers featuring front-page news of his death for as little as 99 cents.
Of the products offered for sale, nearly 17,500 were music recordings and nearly 17,000 were memorabilia.
EBay's home page displayed a special "Remembering the King of Pop" category offering "Memorabilia, Music, Autographs, Records".
The collectibles for direct sale or auction included Michael Jackson posters, dolls, ticket stubs, concert programs, newspapers, magazines, tote bags, pins, badges, stickers, T-shirts and other clothing.
And, of course, albums, thousands and thousands of albums.
One of the more unusual items listed on eBay was a white glove doubling as an invitation to a "Michael Jackson party". It can be had for $US50,000 ($A62,189) with the money purportedly going to support an orphanage in Kyrgyzstan.
A "rare and original" black felt fedora said to have been autographed by the pop legend himself had attracted 18 bids by late Saturday, the highest at $US9,899 ($A12,312).
An electric guitar also said to have been signed by the singer was being offered for $US10,000 ($A12,438). By late Saturday, it had been either sold or removed from the site.
Dozens of replica red leather jackets like the ones Jackson wore in the music videos of Thriller and Beat It are on sale for prices ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars.
Earlier, a 1984 Michael Jackson Thriller doll had attracted 27 bids with a top offer of $US167.50 ($A208.33).
Thousands of items of Michael Jackson memorabilia were also being offered for sale on online classifieds site Craigslist.
Over at online retail store Amazon.com, the top 15 selling albums were all by Jackson, including two made with his brothers when they were the Jackson 5.
Nine of the top 10 selling albums at Apple's iTunes music store were from the King of Pop with The Essential Michael Jackson leading the way.
Seven of the top 10 songs being downloaded on iTunes were by the singer, with Man in the Mirror the most popular.
The surge in Jackson popularity was not limited to the United States.
Jackson was also set to top the British album chart on Sunday.
His greatest hits album Number Ones was set for top spot and up to half a dozen of the singer's other albums could also make the Top 75, according to the Official Charts Company.
"We always find where a great icon dies that there's a massive uplift in their music sales as fans want to connect and express their grief through the records," said Gennaro Castaldo of retailer HMV.
"We've seen this with people like John Lennon, Elvis, Johnny Cash and Frank Sinatra over the years. With Michael Jackson in particular, he was just on the cusp of a big comeback anyway and we were already beginning to see a lift in sales."
Jackson had been scheduled to play the first of 50 comeback concerts in London on July 13.
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