Author Joel Williamson shared Elvis kept a group of three 14-year-old girls with him on the tour who were up "for pillow fights, tickling, kissing and cuddling when he was 22.

  • @carl_dungeon
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    1424 months ago

    Because no one cared about that 60 years ago

    • @[email protected]
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      964 months ago

      Most people weren’t even aware of it.

      The general public knowing every little detail about a celebrity’s life simply wasn’t a thing then.

      • @Cryophilia
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        164 months ago

        People wrote songs about it. Famous songs that you know the words to. People knew, they just didn’t care.

    • @aodhsishaj
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      494 months ago

      The sad truth is that it was a very common practice. Just wait until they hear about Jerry Lee Lewis.

      • @TexasDrunk
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        404 months ago

        And the Grateful Dead (sure Bob, you waited while she slept outside your room every night for 3 years), Chuck Berry, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, and about a hundred other groups. Hell, Kiss had the Christine Sixteen song, Jethro Tull had Aqualung, Seventeen by Winger, Into the Night by Benny Mardones, and a bunch of other songs have super uncomfortable lyrics about girls.

        That’s not even getting into well known shit bags like Nugent.

        • @[email protected]
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          624 months ago

          Jethro Tull doesn’t romanticize Aqualung (the old man that sits on a park bench and eyes little girls with bad intents). Quite the contrary actually.

          • @TexasDrunk
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            274 months ago

            That’s a really good point. I’m leaving it for now so your reply makes sense but I’ll remove it next time I make that list (which happens too often).

        • @aodhsishaj
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          64 months ago

          Yuuuuuup it’s a long line of assholes in rock and roll.

      • @I_Has_A_Hat
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        34 months ago

        At least one of the fathers openly endorsed it. I don’t think fathers cared as much about it as you think.