Ministry - Grace

Regardless of the situation, no matter what the stakes are at stake — country versus rhythm and blues, North versus South, whites versus blacks, rich versus poor, old men versus youth — the split has affected all of America, divided by the Presley phenomenon. The reaction could take a wide variety of forms, from the creation of a Beethoven fan club by two students of the prestigious Yale University to the rally of offended matrons distributing anti-Elvis petitions to their parents in their quarter, including publicly burning Elvis’s effigies in Nashville and throwing the singer rotten eggs at some concerts. In Jacksonville, Florida (decisively, in this city the reaction to Presley was the most extravagant), the case took a less comical turn when one woman, a juvenile judge,formally attended Elvis’s performance in the summer of 1956. Having received an alarming signal from the “civil committee”, Judge Gooding decided to see if the singer’s behavior was reprehensible; at the end of the concert, she issued a warning to the colonel that he would calm the ardor of his artist under pain of imprisonment.