Machine Head - Nothing Left

However, Presley was not the first superstar to impose her image on the world of American pop music. Between the two wars, housewives dried out on Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra was the first to play on the emotions of teenage girls, causing them the same hysterical reaction in the early forties. But unlike his predecessors and even the honorary Pat Boone, who remained his main rival in the mid-fifties, Elvis built his reputation on ambiguity and provocation, becoming the mouthpiece of a generation seeking to shake up the patterns of behavior that society imposed on him.