Earlier today the 1,000th number one record was announced - Elvis - One Night. Quite surprising considering he has been 'dead' for 27 years and even if he were still alive would be 70 this year. One Night was last in the charts in 1959, doesn't it just illustrate the dire state of todays popular music. Not that I have anything against Elvis of course.

Paul Snr

Good-on Elvis, eh?!
Hasn't he lost a lot of weight?
Personally, I don't mind Elvis being at Number One.

Mind you, given that the current music industry is all over the place, don't you find that a lot of the gig requests now are either classic, anthems, cheesey or former hits of yester-year, slightly proving that you can't beat a good 'ol tune??!!
I'm not knocking the current releases, but even the sampled 're-vamps' and 'mix's' of ELO cutnpastes, for example, are not only catchy, but re-introduce those same 'masterpieces' to todays 'culture' (whatever that is now!!!)

Remember when James Brown was over-sampled in the 80's, or Michael Jackson riffs were layered and added with new arrangements and vocals? Pretty little has changed in re-inventing the former hit with a new style for the moment.

Computers are allowing the unknown faces out-there to manipulate with ease the material composed, performed and engineered by real musicians and studio technicians....in the comfort of either a bedroom or home studio.

I see progress on the technical level, but a step backwards for the budding musician, or vocal performer, trying to make a break into the world of the music industry unless he or she can likewise 'adapt' to modern influences and concepts.

That said, it hasn't really harmed the likes of Daniel Bedingfield to release material of a 'commercial style nature' first, and personal tastes later, or the existing artiste creative talents from Mr Bowie to DJ JXL (which brings us back to Elvis!!!)


BTW - Eric Clapton once said (on a Frank Skinner interview) that the 'new' superstars of the stage were DJs. I wonder how long that perception will last??

Elvis number one JUST when it meant something eg: THe UK's 1000th number one....hmmm Highly suspect...

I remember reading somewhere that getting a number one in January was the easiest time to get a number one...all the other artists, record companies, and promotion bods are still on Christmas breaks.

Makes me wonder if the few thousand (hundred?) copies that sold, were all bought at stores within lunchtime walking distance of the record label concerned...

Fair enough, this tune is "Elvis", but lets face it, "Jailhouse Rock", "Hounddog", or "Blue Suede Shoes", it aint .

All the tracks that have been "Re-released" are available else where on numerous compilations, surely prompting the question "Why do we need to put these tracks out again?"

I certainly will not be purchasing any of this totally un-neccesary cash generator.

Nothing against Elvis at all, only the greed of the record company.

why not put out some better and more dj friendly mixes?

As mentioned I didn't mind the 1000 number 1 going to Elvis but they were many tracks the company could have released to achieve this....maybe they are saving the likes of Sus Minds for when they have some competition...

Not sure how true this is, I heard they were releasing an Elvis track every week for the next x weeks as the Copyright to the tracks is expiring....any one else heard this???

Steve

did anyone watch top of the pops on friday. when it came to play the number one they anounced they could not play the video because elvis's estate would not give permission to play it. so whats happening there then?

I wonder if they're re-releasing all his stuff in the USA as well?

i think its grand that he is at numba 1, good that people still enjoy his music.

Dave

I do like some of his stuff but "One Night" Im afraid it's a from me.

Lisa marie has just sold his estate including Graceland

i knew either you or ads were gonna do that