He’s everywhere.
Update: That famous Elvis album cover has been imitated by other bands and singers (kd lang, Big Audio Dynamite). Its distinctive simple image, the pink/green coloring of the letters, the vertical/horizontal placement with the black and white image … but the best is The Clash’s London Calling. Cousin Mike just sent me the image.
I had the Clash album on vinyl back in the day (it still gives me goosebumps to think of it, the music scared me), and had no idea what image that cover was referencing.
Thanks, cousin Mike, for sending it on. Memories.
Never realized til now how this was taken to shreds by the Clash’s album cover of London Calling with them looking down and smashing the guitar.
Takes on a whole new meaning.
Post the pic Sheils!
Cousin Mike – yeah! Kd lang did a take-off of the album cover too – but the Clash one is much better.
see you this week, I hope??
You ran into him once more. Just great.
Ah, the days of London Calling on vinyl…I broke more rulers to the sound of “Death or Glory” than all other songs combined in my, er, “frustrated drummer” days. Elvis ends up being connected some way or other to so many happy memories!
Wore out the vinyl on that one myself…are there any artists/groups around these days capable of putting out whatever the equivalent of a double lp is of such high quality music?
That album is CRAZY.
The Clash, like Elvis, wowed audiences with the unusual energy of their live performances.
The pink lettering may be just a coincidence, but we’ll probably never know for sure.
Whatever, getting The Clash into your Elvis series was unexpected.
Thanks, Cousin Mike.
No WAY is that a coincidence. Same lettering, placement, coloring against a black and white photograph. It was a ballsy cover for The Clash, an obvious reference. Love it!
The cover of LONDON CALLING is SO iconically rock ‘n’ roll i can’t even… Interestingly it’s a pic of bassist Paul Simonon and not Mick Jones, who along with St. Joe Strummer were the Glimmer Twins of “the only band that matters”. The fact that Clash fans would say that about them without a trace of irony is indicative of how that they really were, in DGs words, a band uniquely capable of putting out ‘whatever the equivalent of a double lp is of such high quality music’…