Welcome to Naberrie Fields! Introductions & banter

Welcome, Lulu! I recognise you from the DPRK/PRC of message boards: the dreaded TFN. You've just bumped our member count up to 49. We're one away from 50. 

Yep, we set this place up the year of Star Wars' 40th anniversary, as serendipity would have it. And we've added onto and refined it a bit since then. 

Make yourself at home and pink-up the place as much as you like.

Also, please excuse me here, since I need to respond to our webmaster, Subtext Mining, and continue our little Elvis/Beatles/Star Wars sidebar:



Nice! "Don't" is one of Elvis' great early ballads, highlighting his awesome potential as a balladeer par excellence, and showcasing his fine ability in those days (when he was young, healthy, and eager) to craft concise, compelling slices of indelible pop music.  

You should have said back to your brother, every time he spun or sliced you, "How do you think I feel?" -- which is another fine offering from the early Elvis (from his album of the same name):



Man, I love the cover of that album, and the bubbly energy of that song is fantastic.

The greatest hits compilation you refer to was "50 Years 50 Hits", and as the title suggests, it was released on his 50th birthday. It is strange to think of Elvis reaching 50. Of course, he checked out of this "Heartbreak Hotel" of a world at only 42 -- the same "age" as the Star Wars Saga (as commemorated internally in TROS), naturally. As Elvis died, so Star Wars was born. It's even stranger that the famous "Wow! signal" was received only the day before Elvis died (his last full day on Earth); and he himself is connected to "2001", starting most of his 1970s concerts with the famous overture, and dying on August 16th 1977, a date which adds up to 2001. Even his last album, "Moody Blue", released only one month before his death, depicts him inside a monolith. Incidentally, he met The Beatles on August 27th 1965, which adds up to 2000.  

Anyway, as for your link to "Don't" itself, that's taken from another greatest hits compilation, "ELV1S: Elvis: 30 #1 Hits". This release was very big (Elvis' first of the new millennium) and helped pull me a bit more into the world of Elvis -- though I was even more taken by the "A Little Less Conversation" single that was out at the same time. Of course, showing how much The Beatles and Elvis feed into one another, that greatest hits release in 2002 was modelled on The Beatles' own greatest hits compilation, "1", which came out in the year 2000:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_(Beatles_album)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELV1S:_30_No._1_Hits

One year after the Elvis compilation, Michael Jackson got in on the action with his own "Number Ones" greatest hits album:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Ones_(Michael_Jackson_album)

The Holy Trinity of pop music icons, right there.

And, of course, all three have impressive music catalogues in general. MJ himself also profited enormously by effectively owning most of The Beatles' catalogue (or the publishing rights to most of their songs) in the mid-80s, outbidding Paul McCartney himself! MJ, in those early years of his career, was one shrewd motherfucker.

www.history.com/this-day-in-history/michael-jackson-takes-control-of-the-beatles-publishing-rights

MJ would later marry Lisa-Marie Presley in 1994, though the marriage would be annulled two years later. So he would pull in different ways from the legacy of major white musicians/performers who preceded him, despite most of his music heroes being of black ancestry. MJ also told Lisa-Marie he didn't want to end up like Elvis, but he too fell into depression and a cycle of drug addiction that proved fatal. "I will not betray the Republic." But somehow, we find those ways to go against our strongest vows and promises, don't we?