The impacts of Elvis Presley

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Question 5:

The impacts of Elvis Presley can be divided into several groups. Firstly is the impact in terms of the amount of sales that he made. He made 6 hit singles,

 at the time he had only been going for 10 months. This is more that any artist would hope to get in their whole career. His popularity among the younger generations also helps to see the impact the he has made, someone noticed that there was a market for music aimed towards younger generations, so they set out looking for someone; this meant that he had no competition when he was released onto the market. Because of this the impact seemed a lot greater, there had never been anything like it. Among adults there was also outrage because it went against everything that they believed to be right and good. The outrage meant that it must be cool to like him so his popularity grew. He also had a long term impact in that it wasn’t just the music. You could get toys and films, records and books. All of this added to the impact of him on U.S society.

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The next thing to consider is whether it was down to his music. Whatever anyone says it was clear that he had amazing talent; this doesn’t mean that everyone liked him but everyone acknowledged that it had its place. He was deemed “A white man that can sing like a black man”, he was something different and in this time there was no one else like him. The amount of sales from his records also helps to give evidence supporting this. He made it to number to in the company’s charts in a very short time shows how effective ...

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