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Elvis Presley

Alternative rock

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Elvis Presley is a Alternative rock and Blues act. Their catalogue also touches Country, Gospel and Pop. Their sound grew out of The Golden Gate Quartet, Perfume Genius, Gwen McCrae, B.J. Thomas and Billy Walker. Those roots explain a lot about how Elvis Presley arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Tom Jones, The Everly Brothers and Fats Domino, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Miley Cyrus, Jim Morrison, Green Day, Bridgit Mendler and Meghan Trainor, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 424 connections around Elvis Presley, reaching back through The Golden Gate Quartet and forward to Miley Cyrus. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.