Opinion | Elvis' impact on music culture is as powerful as ever. Just ask Harry Styles.

“He invented what we know now as celebrity,” Jackson says. “Sure, Sinatra did some movies and he was on television, but with Sinatra, you could listen to the music and that could be enough. But with Elvis, you had to see him. And once people could see him, he became not just this novelty act from the South who was putting out records on a small independent label. It was: ‘Holy crap. This is a cultural force. It’s a new thing.

“He only cared about his art and being the greatest Elvis that ever lived,” Jackson said. “The public is drawn to if an artist means what they’re doing, and can they sense that through all the media, and through all the hype. That was Elvis, and he was the first to really exploit that in the modern media age.”Still, in his later years, and in the immediate aftermath of his death, Presley was largely scorned and ridiculed.

“The jumpsuit was designed so that if you were in row ZZ in the Philadelphia Spectrum, you could still tell which one was Elvis on the stage,” he says. “Because they didn’t have screens; they didn’t have anything. So he had to have the most exaggerated clothes.” “I came to learn about Elvis, and to understand that there was a deep connection between the raw spirit of punk rock and early Elvis,” said Zanes, who was a member of the band the Del Fuegos in the 1980s. “What I knew was a much diminished, tabloid Elvis. Inevitably we all returned to Elvis as a symbol of the best in rock and roll.”

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