But things began to change in late October 1957, thanks to Elvis announcing the impending arrival of “a rock ’n’ roll Christmas.” The setting was a San Francisco press conference and the reference pertained to the imminent release of Elvis’ Christmas Album. Unsurprisingly, the media took the bait, waxing indignantly about the desecration of Christmas music. Even Time magazine got into the act. At the height of its influence, the magazine did one of its trademark putdowns, warning of the “most serious menace to Christmas since I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.”

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "But things began to change in late October 1957, thanks to Elvis announcing the impending arrival of “a rock ’n’ roll Christmas.” The setting was a San Francisco press conference and the reference pertained to the imminent release of Elvis’ Christmas Album. Unsurprisingly, the media took the bait, waxing indignantly about the desecration of Christmas music. Even Time magazine got into the act. At the height of its influence, the magazine did one of its trademark putdowns, warning of the “most serious menace to Christmas since I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.”" in the context of "Pat Murphy, for Troy Media, in an article dated December 19, 2018 and entitled "The first rock ’n’ roll Christmas", his reference to TIME dovetailing nicely (LOL) with the not so well known fact that TIME, in part thanks to the Luce Family, remains to this day the only major US based magazine to have never had Elvis Presley grace its cover." to mean that wisdom is timeless.