Yes - and the contest isn't even close.
You could throw out half of Elvis's 38 Top 10 hits and he'dstill be No. 1.
That's what makes his story so sad.
There was no concept of art in the early days of rock, and theonly measurement of accomplishment that he knew was fame.
Lord Acton warned about the corrupting effect of absolute power,and no one in rock - not the Beatles, not Dylan, not Springsteen -has experienced a power as absolute as Elvis's. And his audiencewillingly served him. Their job was not to question, but to adore.
Still caught up in the magic of the spell that …
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