According to my parent’s generation, so did Elvis, who was responsible for the downward slide of teenage morality. They weren’t up on the drug scene the Beatles engendered-ours was a small, rural, conservative town where only the most daring(a clique of 3 or 4 males) went to smoke weed behind the hamburger stand that bordered the school campus.
I vote for the Beatles.
I was too young to see Elvis at his best. The only Elvis movie I saw at the theater was “Blue Hawaii”, the first in a double feature that my grandmother and I stumbled into when I was about 6 or so. She was distressed at the pelvis shaking, I didn’t understand why at the time.
In our high-school cafeteria, we, surprisingly, had a Jukebox. I musta heard “Hey, Jude”; “Let it Be” and “Lucy in the Sky w/ Diamonds” 1000 times during my first two years of HS. By then, other artists were singing Elvis songs and delivering them better!! Poor guy-what a waste of talent!!