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Friday, April 26, 2013

Elvis and The Smiths

It's no secret that The King of Rock influenced Johnny Marr's compositions with The Smiths. Perhaps the most blatant example of Presley's influence can be heard on The Smiths track "Rusholme Ruffians" -- as Tony Fletcher writes, it "displayed such an obvious doff of the cap to Elvis Presley's "(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame".

Hear it for yourself.
Here's "Rusholme Ruffians":


And here's Presley's "His Latest Flame":


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