Porcupine Tree - Lips Of Ashes

The sudden loss of interest of the Negro community and country music lovers to Presley's records is most revealing in terms of his creative degradation. From 1961 to 1968, not one of his singles appealed to country and western fans, and African-Americans finally struck him out of their charts after 1963. Elvis was well aware of what was happening, and even intended to record a record for the orchestra of James Brown, an outstanding representative of soul music. Impresario quickly cooled his ardor, stating a categorical protest on the pretext that now is not up to fraternization. Pastor Martin Luther King's crusade reached its paroxysm; as pragmatic as ever, the colonel was not about to lose the favor of the southerners with whom he maintained friendship from opportunism.