i) I loved Mahalia Jackson, all the great gospel singers, but the most important music to me was those hip-shakin' boys, like Wilson Pickett and Elvis Presley. I just loved Elvis Presley. Whatever he got, I went out and bought. But I liked “Love Me Tender” the most. In fact, Elvis had an influence on everybody with his musical approach. He broke the ice for all of us ii) Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, you know, I liked them all. See, we were used to the Motown era and the Stax era. And I really had an Elvis Presley collection of records, myself. I lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and I liked all the Elvis records, had no idea I would move to Memphis, Tennessee, and (in fact) I didn't know Elvis lived in Memphis.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "i) I loved Mahalia Jackson, all the great gospel singers, but the most important music to me was those hip-shakin' boys, like Wilson Pickett and Elvis Presley. I just loved Elvis Presley. Whatever he got, I went out and bought. But I liked “Love Me Tender” the most. In fact, Elvis had an influence on everybody with his musical approach. He broke the ice for all of us ii) Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, you know, I liked them all. See, we were used to the Motown era and the Stax era. And I really had an Elvis Presley collection of records, myself. I lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and I liked all the Elvis records, had no idea I would move to Memphis, Tennessee, and (in fact) I didn't know Elvis lived in Memphis." in the context of "Al Green's answer as to what music did he listen to as a 13 year old kid, growing up, as published in Al Green's Wikipedia page ii) his reply as to which singers influenced him the most, from interview with Wax Poetics" to mean that wisdom is timeless.