The first Elvis song I fell in love with. Growing up in the late sixties I had no time for Elvis. I especially had no time for him in the seventies. Yes I saw all the films and remember going to the local theatre in Blackpool when I was 8 to see some Acapulco Fun or something similar. But we had the Beatles and the Monkees and then Cream and Creedence and I couldn't see where Elvis fit in. I do rememer a fondness for In The Ghetto when it came out. I had built myself a crystal radio set and listened to casey case's American Top 40 in my bed on Sunday nights.
But it was until the late seventies while driving to a gig at RMIT for O week when this song came on the radio. It was like someone opening a door to the outside letting in the first light. IT was familiar but I don't remember ever hearing it. But I had to get it. It was just too good. Of course it ws no longer a single purchase , I had to buy a double album best of. For one song. But I thought I'd give some of the songs a try. And I began to realise what made the guy so special. Hearing Heartbreak Hotel on headphones blew my mind. All this stuff I had heard on tinny transistor radios surrounded by radio crap. In my room with better speakers I really got to hear him. Brilliant stuff.
The Smiths incorparated into one of their songs on the Rank album. Nuff said.
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