Ted Hutt, UK Grammy Award winning music producer, musician and song writer, one of the founding members for the bands Promise, Great Unwashed, Gods Hotel, Reacharound, and Flogging Molly, in an interview with Musicradar published on July 22, 2018.
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I was always struck by the idea that when John Lennon was singing back in Germany, he was trying to be Elvis Presley, but it was nothing like Elvis Presley. That's very exciting to me that you can be inspired by something so much that it drives you to this point, but nobody outside of yourself can see that that is where it's coming from.

— Ted Hutt

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I was always struck by the idea that when John Lennon was singing back in Germany, he was trying to be Elvis Presley, but it was nothing like Elvis Presley. That's very exciting to me that you can be inspired by something so much that it drives you to this point, but nobody outside of yourself can see that that is where it's coming from." in the context of "Ted Hutt, UK Grammy Award winning music producer, musician and song writer, one of the founding members for the bands Promise, Great Unwashed, Gods Hotel, Reacharound, and Flogging Molly, in an interview with Musicradar published on July 22, 2018." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (8 January 1935 – 16 August 1977) was an American singer, musician, and actor. Popularly known by his first name as "Elvis," as "The King of Rock and Roll" or simply as "The King," he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century.