Dead Elvis

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1. Dead Elvis is a work for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, violin, double bass and percussion, composed in 1993 by Michael Daugherty, associate professor of music at the University of Michigan. It uses a medieval Latin chant for the Day of Judgment as the principal musical theme and pits two different Elvis Presley images: "the hip, beautiful, genius, thin, rock-and-roll Elvis vs. the vulgar, cheesy, fat, stoned, Las Vegas Elvis." The work was commissioned by Boston Musica Viva and Chuck Ullery, principal bassoonist with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

External link

• University of Michigan: Dead Elvis

2. Dead Elvis was the first album by British band Death in Vegas. It was released in 1997.

Track listing

1. "All That Glitters" – 6:34
2. "Opium Shuffle" – 5:02
3. "GBH" – 5:09
4. "Twist & Crawl" – 4:59
5. "Dirt" – 5:52
6. "Rocco" – 6:34
7. "Rekkit" – 5:40
8. "I Spy" – 3:50
9. "Amber" – 4:13
10. "Rematerialised" – 5:33
11. "68 Balcony" – 5:07
12. "Sly" – 3:33

Personnel

• Richard Fearless
• Tim Holmes

For other music relating to Elvis Presley, see also The King & Eye and Jason Morphew's song, "Elvis Was a Mama's Boy" from his 2001 album, Not for the Faint of Heart!.