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Elvis
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[W]hat upset grownups of both sexes about Elvis' performance was that he had broken the deepest taboo of all. He used his body as rhythmically and erotically and seductively as a woman--that was the forbidden territory he had entered. It was not only repulsive and offensive--it was nauseating--the word most used. It was an attack on male dignity.
The kids, however, not yet grown into the stereotypes of gender, saw in him an exhilarating physical freedom.
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― Elvis and Gladys
― Elvis and Gladys
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Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
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― [(Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits)] [Author: Elvis Presley] published on
― [(Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits)] [Author: Elvis Presley] published on
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