Elvis' behavior

[senadw124]

Is it just me, or are there three different Elvis'?
After my opinion, he's acting different in each decade.

50's: Unspoiled, hardcore rock-singer, rocking numbers, up-beat tempo.

60's: More behaived, wellmannered, turned a little down on the rock (until the 68' comeback of course, and then quietly went down again)

70': Down to earth, ballad-singing entertainer, who adores Jesus much more than before.

Can anyone explain why he was acting so different all those years? It's like there were three Elvis'! :king: :king: :king:
Could it be that he got more imature? It's just like his voice that changed also..

[Elvisgirl]

well...most people change as they get older
he got a new image for every decade, i think thats so cool

[ForeverTheKing]

I agree...sometimes it's like I can see different singers in Elvis and this is something I really like in him.
I never get bored with Elvis :lol:
He grew up in his personal life and career and I think it's normal in every singer.
Elvis couldn't have been the rock 'n roll rebel forever (as Robbie Williams couldn't have been able to sing and dance with Take That since the end of his life :lmfao: )...moreover Elvis always liked ballads and others genres, more than rock 'n roll so it was a natural for him to choose something else in the seventies.
I like it...if you listen or look him in the seventies he's completely different from himself in the fifties...so I agree...the only constant was is talent and his big charisma.(y) :clap:

[hounddog]

Even in the 50's Elvis "adored Jesus" as you put it. He sang gospel on Ed Sullivan, released gospel records in the 50's. It was always there from beginning to end.

Elvis grew up, basically, most people do change with the more they live life. As for the ballad singing Elvis of the 70's i've read a few times that he said that he sort of fell into rock music that he was a ballad singer. The records he paid to record at sun were ballads.

I think Elvis was complex as most of us are he just lived his in the public eye.

[Cryogenic]

It's a question that has no easy answer. The best answer has already been given: Elvis was a complex person.

It's not so much his behaviour, but his voice that says it all. The Elvis of 1956 sounds very different to the Elvis of 1966 and the Elvis of 1966 sounds very different to the Elvis of 1976. The music is where you must always start, and ultimately, always return.

[elvislady]

[QUOTE=Cryogenic;82729]It's a question that has no easy answer. The best answer has already been given: Elvis was a complex person.

It's not so much his behaviour, but his voice that says it all. The Elvis of 1956 sounds very different to the Elvis of 1966 and the Elvis of 1966 sounds very different to the Elvis of 1976. The music is where you must always start, and ultimately, always return.[/QUOTE
i agree with you(Cryogenic (y)
elvislady

[orwell1976]

It's very simple. Like it was said before, we all change during our life. It would be funny, if a fourty year old guy still acts like he did when he was twenty. Most people don't realize it themself that they changed so much, but we certainly all do.

[Dovey]

I agree with the above statement 100%... Elvis was just Elvis to me. Dovey ;)

[Cryogenic]

Cool, elvislady!


It's very simple. Like it was said before, we all change during our life. It would be funny, if a fourty year old guy still acts like he did when he was twenty. Most people don't realize it themself that they changed so much, but we certainly all do.

Much agreed.

That said...... a lot of people who knew Elvis described him as a kid in a man's body. I think Elvis might also have said something along the lines of feeling perpetually 19. That's in certain contexts, of course, for in other ways, he was very much a man, very much feeling the pull of mortality and the growing weight of life.

[MISSCLAWDY]

I agree with you, everybody has got different sides , depending on age, a specific situation, our mood , the person we're exchanging opinion with...Elvis is no different. If you listen to all the people who met Elvis, you see everyone of them gives you his personal memory of Elvis, and if we could listen to Elvis himself he'd probably give us another kind of view..it all depends on how you relate to someone, that's why we've got so many different portraits of Elvis.

[Wendy56]

People change as time goes by... That's the process of life. I love Elvis: the 50s, 60s, 70s. :wub:

[Burning_Love]

I have thought this, that there are '3 different Elvis's' but it's just the change of the decades, what was in then.

[john carpenter]

I agree with everyone that as you age you change. Elvis still could act like a kid sometimes,because Gladys sheltered him when he was young, she was worried he'd get hurt or worse. He really couldn't go anywhere without her knowing. And the Elvis of 56 was far different from 76. He never got boring he changed with the times. If Elvis lived until the eighties he would've been on M.T.V.