Remind yourself that you have only become older when you find yourself at odds with today’s youth. Elvis Presley is a prime example of this clearly obvious rule in action. He was once a hated revolutionary who destroyed the conventional state of affairs. Soon, he found himself defending the same viewpoint against his successors. The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, with his sultry ways, changed America, but he wasn’t too fond of what he had become.
His deeply connected hatred of the revolutionaries who came after him is ironic. Elvis Presley is undoubtedly a danger to the security of the United States. A former Army Intelligence Service officer made this statement in a letter to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover in 1956. “[His] actions and motions were such that they aroused the sexual passions of adolescent youth,” the speaker continues. Two eyewitnesses characterized his acts as ‘sexual self-gratification on stage’ and a strip-tease with clothes on.
Before seriously drawing the conclusion that “boys in their adolescence are easily aroused to sexual indulgence and perversion by certain types of motions and hysteria, – the type that was exhibited at the Presley show,” he started talking about teenage girls who start at eleven. This doesn’t even make them teenagers, demonstrating his twisting of facts. There are also rumors of Presley fan clubs turning into orgies involving sex. Presley’s eyewitness accounts lead me to believe that he might be a drug addict and a sexual pervert.
The fact that Elvis was shown around FBI headquarters ten days after meeting Nixon in 1970 as an ally illustrates how quickly the sexual liberation of popular culture unfolded beyond his personal tastes. However, that might make for extremely problematic reading. During his visit, Elvis expressed his opinion that “people in the entertainment industry of their ilk, such as Jane Fonda and the Smothers Brothers, had poisoned young minds by criticizing the United States in their public statements and unsavory activities.”
But The Beatles, in his opinion, were the ones who had most degraded the great country of the United States of America. It was a time of — well, pandemonium if you will. We four Liverpool men couldn’t have known the consequences of what we were doing at the time. One of the characters in ‘1964: Eyes of the Storm’ captures this reflection.
Philosophically, he remarks, “We were going through a sexual awakening at the time, just like the rest of the world, even though we had no perspective.” By the mid-1960s, we realized that we had a freedom that their generation had never experienced. Our parents had been afraid of sexual diseases and other things of that nature.
Elvis belonged to an older generation, and the freedoms that the younger generation was attempting to impose on him frustrated his growing conservatism. Indeed, there are rumors that he offered to spy on John Lennon. This was in order to assist Richard Nixon in obtaining evidence to deport the singer of peace and love from the United States.
There is a 663-page report on “Presley, Elvis A.” stashed away in the FBI vault. We discover that “he thought the Beatles had been a real force for anti-American spirit” from that. In addition, he believed that the Beatles’ dirty, unkempt appearances and suggestive music had a significant impact. He thought it laid the groundwork for many of the problems we are having with young people.
That’s the composed message he sent to the authorities, but his agent said the Kung Fu fighting Burger King would “fly into a rage” if you brought up John Lennon in private. But his distaste is also evident in the logged notes from his meeting with President Nixon. The statement, they read, may have been the most renowned example of never meeting your heroes in history. “He said that the Beatles came to this country, made their money, and then returned to England. There, they promoted an anti-American theme.”
