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Elvis Presley: The Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan

Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, December 1972

I'M GETTING pretty sick of all this talk about what a gross Tom Jones imitation Elvis has become. Baby fat and other people’s songs, indeed. Christ, Elvis is almost 40, why can’t we let him age gracefully?

Total word count of piece: 646

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