Similarities in Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley not only in their lives but also in their deaths

Similarities in Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley not only in their lives but also  in their deaths

The rumors and comparisons started before they were buried to grave.

After passing away of Michael Jackson, discussions about the King of Pop and Elvis Presley, “The

King” of rock ‘n’ roll, made a new start.

In the following hours, Canadian popstar Celine Dion made a comment about the death of persons

like Jackson: “like when (President John) Kennedy died, when Elvis Presley died. We are not only

talking about a talented person dying, it’s an amazing loss.”

whole life activity. In analyzes there are lots of common points between Jackson and Presley and  Billboard magazine editorial director Bill Werde supported this situation and said that: “The world just lost the biggest pop star in history, no matter how you cut it.”

In documents like articles etc. about the Jackson and Presley, we can see same approach to their

According to declaration, Jackson and Presley are in same and highest place in popular culture. But they come to their place in the pantheon by the same way?

Of cource, there are some similarities between them. Each of them came to the world rich and reached to pick point of being music icon on a global scale(But there is a view such as Jackson is one step ahead because Presley never performed out of North America). Both of them sold hundreds of millions of records and became unbelivable artists for their cultural group and financial confortabilty just before assigning their succesor. Here we can see a interesting point like daughter of Preslew was married to Jackson.

Several Elvis books’ author Presley’ Alanna Nash expresses her opinion as “Like Elvis, Jackson unified black and white listeners, and made startlingly important, memorable and era-defining music,”. Also a groundbreaking biography of Presley’s manager, Col. Tom Parker. Makes a comment to this issue like . “Jackson was also a completely luminous performer — you couldn’t take your eyes off of him — and part of it was because you sensed that this was an extraordinarily damaged boy-man, again, like Elvis, a Peter Pan, a puer aeternus” (Latin for “eternal boy”).

On the contrary of Jackson’s superbundant selling strategy, Presley choosed to touch his audience with the approach of a larger cultural phenomenon and made big effects on his audiences and made permanent relationship with them.

Dr. John Bakke, The professor emeritus of the University of Memphis’ Department of Communication and who gave his first conference in 1979 about Presley, says that “Elvis emerged at a point in history where our culture was ready to turn itself upside down,”. “From the Depression on to World War II and then into the Cold War, there was a real drive towards security. Elvis came along at just the time the first identifiable generation of teen-agers were about to substitute a drive for freedom for their parents’ drive for security.”

“With the change in values came a change in music and you had the impact of what became rock ‘n’ roll. Elvis stood at the cusp of that generational revolution.”

According to Nash’s notes, Presley was revolution in his way.

“Where Elvis co-created a musical art form, Michael largely built on one. Where Elvis changed sexual mores in the conservative wake of World War II, Michael only made shocking crotch-grabbing movements. And where Elvis, expanding on James Dean’s work, harnessed a burgeoning youth culture, Michael only drew more attention to it,” says Nash. “He did it brilliantly … but his cultural impact pales in comparison to Presley’s.”

Also the one issue that is worried is the cult makes their around similar in death, Jackson and Presley, Presley who passed away in 1977.

In past decade, some of the Jackson’s legal and personal troubles were shared with public and now there is a difficulty in imagination of visiting goal of tourists to Jackson’s childhood home in Gary, Ind., or his Ranch complex in California. Also This complex exists in the route of Presley’s pilgrims -from 7 to 70- and they used to turn up at Graceland in Memphis, Tenn., each year.

“It’s far easier to overlook Elvis’s peccadilloes than Michael’s,” Nash words. “Elvis was beautiful, sexy and fun. Michael was sweet, strange and sad. Who wants to see that on a lunchbox?”

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