An Elvis WI

Since there's been so many about michael jackson:
What if Elvis had (somehow) continued to stay popular into the early 70s? What if he stayed away from serious drugs?
What if he survived and made a comeback in the 80s?
What if he met Michael Jackson?
 
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I once read a good short story called Red Elvis, about WI his brother lived and he died, along with how his brother became a Communist. It was a good read, but hard to describe.
 
Since there's been so many about michael jackson:
What if Elvis had (somehow) continued to stay popular into the early 70s? What if he stayed away from serious drugs?
What if he survived and made a comeback in the 80s?
What if he met Michael Jackson?

He could meet his son-in-law, Michael Jackson.

If he made a comeback, I suppose someone will come up with a way to make him look bad. Probably some Marilyn Monroe-esque girl will accuse him of having an affair with her. In which case, Elvis might write a Billie Jean-esque song. Something about her not being his lover, etc?
 
After his fifties-revival song, Burning Love, in 1972, Elvis pretty much struggled to stay on the charts for the last five years of his life. Had he lived into the eighties and nineties, his primary appeal would be to a niche audience clearly a generation older than the pop market. The collapse of the traditional Top 40 market after 1990 could actually have helped Elvis maintain his niche.
 
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Wikipedia said:
In 1946, for his eleventh birthday, Presley received his first guitar.[30] He wanted a rifle for his birthday, but his parents could only afford a guitar.[26][31] Over the following year, Vernon's brother, Vester, gave Elvis basic guitar lessons.[26] In September 1948, the family moved to Memphis, Tennessee,[26] allegedly because Vernon—in addition to needing work—had to escape the law for transporting bootleg liquor.[27][32]

Wikipedia said:
Marty Lacker recalls Presley saying: "'Quite frankly, if you guys are going to stare at me all night, I'm going to bed. I thought we'd talk a while and maybe jam a little.' And when he said that, they [The Beatles] went nuts."[193] The group told stories, joked and listened to records. The five of them had an impromptu jam session.[192] "They all went to the piano," says Lacker, "and Elvis handed out a couple of guitars. And they started singing Elvis songs, Beatle songs, Chuck Berry songs. Elvis played Paul's bass part on "I Feel Fine", and Paul said something like, 'You're coming along quite promising on the bass there, Elvis.' I remember thinking later, 'Man, if we'd only had a tape recorder.'"[193]

Wikipedia said:
By 1967, Colonel Tom Parker had negotiated a contract that gave him 50% of Presley's earnings. Parker's excessive gambling—and his subsequent need to have Presley signed up to commercially lucrative contracts—may well have adversely affected the course of Presley's career.[195] Parker's concerns about his own U.S. citizenship (he was a Dutch immigrant) may have also been a factor in Parker and the singer never exploiting Presley's popularity abroad (see: '1973–1976'). It has been claimed that Presley's original band was fired in order to isolate the singer: Parker wanted no one close to Presley to suggest that a better management deal might exist.[196]

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Wikipedia said:
On December 21, 1970, Presley met with President Richard Nixon at the White House (Presley arrived with a gift—a handgun. It was accepted but not presented for security reasons). Presley had engineered the encounter to express his patriotism, his contempt for the hippie drug culture and his wish to be appointed a "Federal Agent at Large". He also wished to obtain a Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs badge to add to similar items he had begun collecting. He offered to "infiltrate hippie groups" and claimed that The Beatles had "made their money, then gone back to England where they fomented anti-American feeling."[224] Nixon was uncertain and bemused by their encounter, and twice expressed his concern to Presley that the singer needed to "retain his credibility".[224][225] Ringo Starr later said he found it very sad to think Presley held such views. "This is Mr. Hips, the man, and he felt we were a danger. I think that the danger was mainly to him and his career." Paul McCartney said also that he "felt a bit betrayed ... The great joke was that we were taking drugs, and look what happened to [Elvis]. ... It was sad, but I still love him. ..."[226]
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The only possible way his career COULD have bounced back was for him to go back to his country roots, and by that point the outlaw/country-rock movements were bigger, and i dont know how elvis could survive musically with competition like Willie, Waylon, DAC, Charlie Daniels, Hank Jr, etc.
 
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