But now I guess you've changed your mind
Elvis Presley - 'Reconsider, Baby' (Elvis Is Back! - 1960)
In 1960 Elvis Presley’s career was at a fork in the road. John Lennon would famously say;
Elvis died the day he went into the Army
Assumedly, Lennon meant that the pre-army Elvis had a rebellious edge to his rock and roll that was dulled after two years of service. There’s some truth to that—he wasn’t the same Elvis of the early Sun Records recordings, his explosive debut Elvis Presley, or his iconic, rebellious image in Jailhouse Rock. But his last pre-army recording, the soundtrack to King Creole, although a movie soundtrack, was critically well-received and remains one of his most respected pieces of work. You can, however, draw a line from that to his more formulaic post-army movie work, like G.I. Blues, Blue Hawaii, and Viva Las Vegas. Yet, despite the trajectory of his film career, he would go on to stage a remarkable comeback in the late '60s with his '68 Comeback Special, the Vegas years, and enjoy some notable later career highlights before his untimely death at the age of 42.
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