" 

 In this edit,  removed what he or she terms a ""bullshit hoax"" but which in fact is the entire ""Controversy"" section. Now, I happen to agree that much of this section looks like bullshit, but the removal still looks odd: after all, one or two of the issues it raises seem more important than all the drivel that comes earlier in the article about Presley's ""performance"" with this or that hottie. My ass is complete, ""cultural theory"" bores me, and I realize that being influenced isn't stealing, but I also realize that Elvis and the ""Colonel"" got rich and that Roy Brown, Wynonie Harris and others did not. So I'd like a lucid, informed explanation of what Presley (or his writers) did to black music and its creators.   "