Paste editor hails the King on NPR

Elvis Presley died three decades ago to the date, making this year’s media-rehashing of his legacy a legitimately notable one. Thus, Paste Editor-at-large Jay Sweet discussed Elvis’s cultural impact during NPR’s “On Point,” alongside a Nashville USA Today correspondent, a Duke University professor of African-American studies and the president of the Elvis Fever Fan Club – apparently one of eight trillion Elvis fanclubs in operation (the one in Istanbul calls it self “Elvis is in Istanbul Now”).

“He’s one of the touchstones that I think anyone who’s trying to reach the cultural paradigm will go back to,” Sweet argues.

Related links:
Elvis.com
OnPointRadio.org
Paste Blog: Sweet Talk

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