ALL SHOOK UP OVER ELVIS HAIR PIECE.Byline: George Galloway ONE of my friends, Brian Yule, had an aunt in Dundee, now sadly deceased. She was a cracker when I was a young schoolboy and her attractiveness was enhanced by her love of Elvis. As compensation for my ardour ar·dour n. Chiefly British Variant of ardor. ardour or US ardor Noun 1. emotional warmth; passion 2. , she gave me an album, lovingly hand-made, of rare pictures of the King, which I still treasure. Not least because her pink lipstick still adorns (40 years on - maybe it was Maybelline?) Elvis's face on the cover. By coincidence, a lock of Elvis's hair, shorn shorn v. A past participle of shear. shorn Verb a past participle of shear Adj. 1. by his barber and smuggled out, has just been sold at an auction in Devizes, Wiltshire, for pounds 1k or a little more. It's a snip, I say. If only one of our political leaders could get hold of Elvis's mojo we'd be All Shook Up all right. For a king, of course, Elvis was born way on the wrong side of the tracks. What would now be called white trailer trash trailer trash Noun Derogatory poor people living in trailer parks in the US , he still bestrides popular culture, luminous as ever and decades after his death. What did he have? What the French call, "Je ne sais quoi je ne sais quoi n. A quality or attribute that is difficult to describe or express: "Fishing has lacked a certain je ne sais quoi in terms of its public image, as all activities must that involve beer, worms and ." I don't know what. It's difficult to define but easy to recognise. His voice, what he did with it, how he stood, how he moved, smiled and swivelled. Especially how he swivelled. And he was the right man in the right place at the right time. CAPTION(S): A SNIP: Lock of the King's hair auctioned for pounds 1000 |
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