Guns N Roses - Used To Love Her

The enormous popularity and a touch of scandalousness associated with his figure made this bold gesture possible, which the New York press, the guardian of the inviolability of the "American dream," immediately took up arms. Reviews published after the release of the movie Love Me Tender clearly show that the main rebuke addressed to Presley was due to his dubious origin, as evidenced by the contemptuous headline in Life magazine: The Success of the Glaring Hillbilly. The black-and-white rock and roll, the king of which he was, admitting a mixture of sexes and cultures, which aroused the fears and fantasies of dominant America, only aggravated the feeling of rejection, which was unambiguously expressed in the press: in the view of the northern elite, rock and roll rebel is direct heir to Johnny Reb,whose rebellion a century earlier plunged the Union into the Civil War.