"Well, I mention this in very close proximity to because they are completely worlds apart. But if you listen to "Elv1s 30 # 1 hits" you realise what an amazing setup he had. The songs are all absolutely genius. That record is completely on another planet to what Captain Beefheart was then doing, but I prize these two equally, and they’ve both influenced me. The thing is with Elvis, he was there, and he’d been established, so the whole time through my teen years, until when he died in 1977, he had been a constant feature. The wallpaper in my life, so he was always there, but I didn’t really see it until now. Same with {{w|Groucho Marx} } and he died in the same week. Suddenly, the two were gone. It was like someone had come in and had started stripping the walls. So, that rocked me… and then I wrote "No More Heroes’ the following week"
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Elvis Presley
film actor, singer, composer
1935 – 1977 · United States
(8 January 1935 – 16 August 1977) was an American singer, musician, and actor. Popularly known by his first name as "Elvis," as "The King of Rock and Roll" or simply as "The King," he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century.
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