Elvis Presley still holds the title of King of Rock and Roll decades after his death, but the late musician believes someone else should have that title.
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Fans have long debated whether Presley was the King of Rock and Roll or not. While making history with his music, the “Burning Love” singer reportedly told Tom Jones who the real king is.
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Express UK shared a story Jones told during a concert, revealing Presley’s thoughts on the title.
“One night, Elvis said to me, ‘Chuck Berry is playing tonight, do you want to come see him?’ I said, ‘Sure.’ So we went to see Chuck Berry, where he was singing and playing and Elvis was looking at him on stage,” Jones said. “And Elvis turned to me and said, ‘There’s the King of Rock and Roll is really there’ and that’s what Elvis Presley said about Chuck Berry.”
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Berry, a pioneer of rock and roll music, died on March 17, 2017, at the age of 90. Instead of the same title as Presley, he is considered the Father of Rock & Roll.
Some newspapers and critics also explained why Berry deserved the title, but some fans shared why he never scored it.
“Elvis made rock and roll popular with white people. Chuck Berry didn’t. Berry was a better musician, he wrote better songs, but he didn’t make it popular . Elvis did it,” one person wrote on Reddit. “This was around the time they replaced the term ‘Race Music’ with ‘R&B’ so they could sell it to white people. Being an icon had nothing to do with being good and everything to do with becoming famous.”
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“Elvis was the great explosion of rock and roll, the sexual revolution and the counterculture. Lester Bangs said Elvis was the only time they (the boomers) were in total agreement. Chuck Berry was definitely a more creatively motivated, but he has 1/10 of Presley’s charisma,” a second person wrote.
On the other hand, some musicians also try to prove they are the King of Rock and Roll instead of Presley.
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