Reply #12: Pat Boone is the only possible answer. [View All]

[Spider Jerusalem]

Before the Holy Trinity plus Ringo, Elvis was the Christ of rock and roll. And Pat Boone was, in every way imaginable, the anti-Elvis, from his Brylcreemed hair to his white buck shoes to his ability to defang and neuter even such (for the era, especially) sexually agressive and raw songs as Tutti Fruti. Rock and roll was subversive and rebellious, the music of a generation learning to rebel against the stultifying conventional morality and blandness of the Eisenhower years, and Pat Boone managed to make it into something your parents would approve of.

If there be a hell, he surely has a reserved seat right next to Kenny G in the eighth circle.