#Blac stars a bad boy song movie#

Of course, ElvisвЂ™s legacy isnвЂ™t just as a creator of great music. Photo: ABG/Graceland Archives / Courtesy Sony Pictures Television We should dwell in what he did that was so beautiful and everlasting. We shouldnвЂ™t make the mistake of writing off a great artist by all the clatter that came later. вЂњHe had no road map, and he forged a path of what to do and what not to do. We all owe him for going first into battle,вЂќ Tom Petty says.

And while the question of whether Elvis was a cultural appropriator of black music or merely its champion/messenger may have been settledВ in the minds of many, the doco goes to great lengths to show us that neither are really true.

#Blac stars a bad boy song movie#

It follows the evolution of ElvisвЂ™s sound from mixing up gospel, blues and country in the '50s through to the movie musicals and Vegas crooning in the '60s. That music is the primary focus of the new documentary Elvis Presley: The Searchers. I wasnвЂ™t a music historian (IвЂ™m still not, as far as I know)В - I didnвЂ™t know who copied from whom or what the lives of any of these people were like. Growing up, Elvis was always playing in the house or on long car rides, along with The Beatles and a variety of other huge pop acts of the '50s and '60s.