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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.

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[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 142 points 3 months ago

Because no one cared about that 60 years ago

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 96 points 3 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@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

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

[-] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago

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

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 40 points 3 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.

[-] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 62 points 3 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@lemmy.world 27 points 3 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@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

I'm pretty sure fathers cared. Shotgun and shovel levels of caring.

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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

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