...Elvis Presley, born on this day in 1935.
Had he lived, he would have been the same age as my parents, who were never his fans. My mother told me about the day in the mid-1950's when he was going to be on television, and all of the girls in her college sorority house crowded into the house mother's bedroom (hers was the only TV in the place) to watch and swoon. Mom defiantly refused to participate, as she considered him "a pill". She has never been much of a music person, with the exception of Gershwin and Ella Fitzgerald. I must have been a changeling.