Scotty Moore: 1931-2016

Wow!
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Elvis: 80!

Happy birthday!
Why do we listen to music?
'To hear passion expressed.'
You did that pretty well. xxxxxxxxxxx

Albert Wertheimer: 1929-2014

Albert Wertheimer took an estimated 2,500 photos of Elvis in eight days in 1956.

Thus securing the young punk's reputation as the most hauntingly beautiful narcissus of all-time.

Thank you.
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• The Wertheimer Collection.

Elvis: August 16th 1977

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Independence Day: Happy July 4th Day, American Dudes!

Any country that produced Noam Chomsky, Dorothy Parker, Elvis Presley and The Simpsons can't be all bad.
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Elvis Presley: Happy Birthday!

"The artist is always an anarchist" - Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca.

Fagburn: Here Is The Gay Non-News

Dong! There's not much happening in Gayland to be honest. I won't keep you, so here's today's non-news in brief. 

Dong! Lots of people over 40 are getting overexcited about David Bowie releasing a surprise new single, Where Are We Now?, on his 66th birthday. It's not that good, really, but hurrah for nostalgia and that. Rumours of a surprise Gary Glitter comeback tomorrow unconfirmed.

Dong! Far more importantly it's Elvis's birthday today, which we always celebrate at Fagburn Mansions. Here's a Spotify playlist of some of my favourite Elvis songs I made a while ago. It's rimming ace.

Dong! Coalition 4 Marriage have released another ComRes poll on gay marriage. Telegraph dutifully salivates. Here's why, once again, it's really dodgy and goes against all the other research on this. And here's why ComRes/C4M polls can't be trusted. Not sure if this predictable anti-gay tripe even warrants comment anymore, but y'know...

Dong! Things are so desperate that another minor US celebrity no-one in the UK has heard of has come out is "newsworthy". Gay Idiot News dutifully salivates. More from Gay Star News: "Another Christian homophobe has said something stupid and homophobic today, almost certainly. GSN are so politically braindead, things like this are all that we get angry about. Plus more of the usual advertorial, press releases, days-old "news", general cringe-making naffness, and power-serving, Orientalist, hegemonic badly-written junk. Yay!"

Dong!: Even Richard Littlejohn in the Daily Mail couldn't raise my righteous ire today. "After getting their cassocks in a twist over female bishops, the Church of England has given the thumbs up to gay bishops — but only if they agree to remain celibate. I don’t want to sound difficult but, apart from God, how will anyone be able to check?" True, obviously. Note to the Church of England hierarchy, even Richard Littlejohn thinks all this is quite laughable.

Dong! A thick gay posh twat has been left - quite literally - stunned after finding out the BNP is full of bigots.  

Dong! Liked this piece, Columnism, by Ulrike Meinhof on how newspapers' "radical" columnists "function as a pressure release valve..." Much more to be said on the vanity and cliqueyness of "star columnists", and how this is antithetical to claims of being of the left, which I hope to wibble on about some day. (Thanks to Pierce Penniless x).

Dong! Why don't you just switch off your computer and go and do something less boring instead?

The Sunday Times Magazine: Happy 50th Birthday

Fagburn salutes your good design.

Elvis Presley: My Philosophy

What makes a happy life?

"Someone to love
Something to look forward to
And something to do."

Jerry Leiber: 1933-2011

Of and Stoller fame.
Songwriter, communist, first man to write hit singles about bummery, for Elvis!, Red Bird Records - Home of The Shangri-las, Is That All There Is?

"But when I kissed a cop down on 34th and Vine,
he broke my little bottle of Love Potion Number Nine."

"Number 47 said to number 3;
'You're the cutest jailbird I ever did see
I sure would be delighted with your company
Come on and do the Jailhouse Rock with me.'"

This is my favourite Leiber & Stoller song.
Like many of Jerry's songs it was probably written as a piss-take of love song clichés, but what the hey.

The Argus: Local News!

Brighton bookie robbed by man with fake Elvis sideburns


Can I just stress this wasn't me?

Current Listening: Elvis - Peace In The Valley The Complete Gospel Recordings

"Enough to make you convert", Greil Marcus, Mystery Train.

On Not Leaving The Building

It is Fagburn's birthday today.
He shall be back in a bit.
Fangyewverymuch etc.

The King & Me

I have now lived
for 42 years
seven months
and ten days
exactly.

I never thought
I'd outlive
Elvis Presley.