Megadeth - Have Cool, Will Travel

Frank Sinatra interrupted his show that evening and performed a medley of Elvis hits, and King's fans besieged the White House press service, demanding an official statement from the president if it was impossible to arrange a state funeral. There was a long debate over the statement between Jimmy Carter and his advisers: they could not agree on whether to glorify a person so far from the establishment. It is one thing when the Governor of Georgia announces Elvis Presley's day, as Carter did a few years ago, and another when the President of the United States officially sings the glory of the southern outback. And yet, Carter decided to do this on the morning of August 17: “The death of Elvis Presley deprived our country of a particle of her own. "His music and his personality have profoundly changed the face of American pop culture, combining white country music and black rhythm and blues."