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Old 12-09-2009, 08:03 PM   #121 (permalink)
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Then why didn't he play guitar and piano in the records?

Elvis was an image, designed very carefully to be as popular as possible. Without the hired songwriters and the session musicians he was nothing.
They were singer/performers before Elvis and they're singer/performers now. Things haven't changed that much. And far as image goes, can you name a singer that doesn't some kind of image.
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