ELVIS COSTELLO SEEKS THE WINDOW UP ABOVE
When a 21-year-old Elvis Presley, stepping out from under the banks of studio lights at the Ed Sullivan Theater, cupped his hands over his eyes and gazed out over the audience grinning his Hall of Fame grin, he was, in George Wallace’s wonderful phrase, “sending them a message.”
ELVIS COSTELLO SEEKS THE WINDOW UP ABOVE
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ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONSGet Happy!! (Columbia)
Jeff Nesin
When a 21-year-old Elvis Presley, stepping out from under the banks of studio lights at the Ed Sullivan Theater, cupped his hands over his eyes and gazed out over the audience grinning his Hall of Fame grin, he was, in George Wallace’s wonderful phrase, “sending them a message.” In one gesture he shrugged off conventional show biz decorum and reached out to kids everywhere, letting them know that thoug he may be on TV he certainly wasn’t iof TV. When, a few years later, the Rolling Stones sauntered into the studio for their first BBC appearance without matching band suits(!), a'couple of them in polo shirts(!l), the same thing happened. Mick J. stared at the camera leering his Hall of Fame leer • and the rest is history.