A Brief One from Doug Draper, a life-long Beatles fan who has room for Elvis too
Posted January 8th, 2025 on Niagara At Large
“There must be lights burning brighter somewhere
Got to be birds flying higher in a sky more blue
If I can dream of a better land
Where all my brothers walk hand in hand
Tell me why, oh why, oh why can’t my dream come true.”
From a 1968 song written for Elvis Presley by Walter Earl Brown
It is hard to imagine a 90-year-old Elvis Presley.
Forever known as ‘The King of Rock & Roll’, he was born on January 8th, 1935. And to borrow a few words from a Bob Dylan song, Elvis, who died on August 16th, 1977 at age 42 from an apparent drug overdose, will always remain “forever young.”
In 1968, at the end of a television show that rekindled his career and became known around the world as his ‘comeback special’, Elvis Presley introduced a song called ‘If I Can Dream’ which, in the dark and divisive times we are living in now, shares a a message that we need more than ever.
To hear and watch Elvis Presley perform that song, click on the screen immediately below and rev it up –
Remembering Elvis Presley on what would have been his 90th Birthday
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