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ELVIS COSTELLO SEEKS THE WINDOW UP ABOVE

When a 21-year-old Elvis Presley, stepping out from under the banks of studio lights at the Ed Sullivan Theater, cupped his hands over his eyes and gazed out over the audience grinning his Hall of Fame grin, he was, in George Wallace’s wonderful phrase, “sending them a message.”

June 1, 1980
Jeff Nesin

ELVIS COSTELLO SEEKS THE WINDOW UP ABOVE

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