Elvis Presley: The King Of Rock'n'Roll: The Complete '50s Masters
Mat Snow, Q, August 1992
FROM US postage stamps to academic treatises like Greil Marcus's Dead Elvis which ponders how a rock singer ends up as apple-pie as Abe Lincoln, Elvis is everywhere – symbolically, at least.
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