European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Columns Man and machine photo by Cus Schuettler Elvis Presley an Industry that Hast stopped by John Windrow staff columnist when Elvis i had a Good Job tending bar on the Corner of first and Market in san i didst hear about it until i came to work and was getting ready for the afternoon slicing Lemons and sticking toothpicks through spiced the bar boy was hauling and he kept singing Heartbreak he told Rne Elvis was the radio stations in Germany and London started playing nothing but Elvis music As soon As they heard about he Over in you know that big record store on Telegraph people came storming in and bought All his albums in a couple of i was talking to a Guy on the when the news came Over the he was driving across the Oakland he said a car with four Middle age women in it pulled Over right in front of him and they sat there blocking the san Francisco papers ran it on the front Page for three or four when i was coming up Back in West Elvis was Only 56 Miles Down the Road in and he was already a tour de the big boys on the school bus All grew combed their hair straight Back and tried to talk in smooth voices and curl their lower lips at the same few could master the girls carried purses with Elvis and guitars embroidered on they wore Charm bracelets that dangled with Teddy bears and hound Elvis was the favorite name for in the by Day or you could hear the Hunters out in the Woods and Fields calling their Coon hounds and Rabbit Elvis Elvis Elvis he had been on the de Sullivan show singing you aint nothing but a hound dog to a Basset hound sitting on a Stool wearing a silk top the network was afraid to show him wiggling his girls swooned Over he was denounced from the a girl in Memphis slipped Over the Graceland Fence when the Yard was being made off with a treasure trove of clipped Blades of grass and sold them to the girls at her school for a Nickel but then he was Only a now Hes Elvis has become a cult Memphis just hosted a week of events to commemorate the eighth anniversary of his people from As far away As Japan were trooping through Graceland mansion at the rate of a Day to see his cars and his motorcycles and his they stood out in a drizzling rain All night to take part in a candlelight March to his i had a pal who was a reporter in he says that when Elvis died in people showed up from All Over the United states to stand outside the some of them stayed for he some had even quit their few of them could explain Why they did then came the raft of books and some of it was pretty Sleazy that Only fed the people were keenly interested in Elvis when i was a but i think it was mainly because he had come out of the Cotton Fields and gotten his hands on so much Money i remember standing in a mechanics and listening to two Farmers in coveralls talking about him one Winter think about one of them said to the them people paying that boy from Tupelo All that Money to walk out on stage and Elvis is still making lots of Money for other it seems an Industry has sprung up of Elvis a colleague of mine has a poster of Elvis being met at the Pearly Gates by Hank while Elvis mama looks Down at them from a Cloud in they were some Sharp boys Down at Sun records who went out looking for a White boy who could shout the blues like he was i dont think they Ever dreamed of what it would turn the Golden voice has become a Golden August stripes Magazine