Only to be appalled: To the callow youth, "(Just Like) Starting Over," Lennon's new song, was a draggy piece of '50s doo-wop nostalgia. So, when the first single from Lennon's first album in five years was played for the first time on a local radio station, the boy sat in his bedroom listening intently to his stereo. Still, he appreciated the ex-Beatles' energy, his irony, his caustic wit. The Beatles he cherished, but of their solo work he preferred McCartney's pop confections to Lennon's political rants and dreamy utopian visions. In 1980, this cynical punk didn't claim John Lennon as an idol. He didn't pause to reflect upon his one-time devotion to Presley, didn't care that he didn't even know what the artist's final release was. Where were all of them yesterday, when Elvis was still just a fat has-been who hadn't charted in years? Hypocrites, every last one of them, he thought. Sure, the heartless little snot said, they cry now that he's gone. He mocked the masses weeping on TV, wailing for their fallen idol. So obsessed with the King was he that, from ages 6 to 8, he insisted on wearing "sideburns"twin shafts of hair stubbornly jutting down in front of each ear, anomalies in his typical, late-'60s bowl-head haircut.īy the time Elvis died in 1977, the boy had cast his hero off like a T-shirt outgrown. There once was a boy who idolized Elvis Presley. Where, by reviewing the final recordings of George Harrison and Warren Zevon, the author seeks redemption for prior sins Metro Pulse/Gamut/Warren Zevon & George Harrison
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