Mark Knopfler, singer and guitarist for the band Dire Straits, for i) elvisblog and ii) in an aricle entotled "Mark Knopfler hails Elvis Presley as the “total rockstar”, as pubkished in the April 20, 2024 issue of Far Out magazine.

i) Watching Elvis perform on the Ed Sullivan Show with my father, I saw how he looked at me, with real horror, that I liked it. Elvis Presley was a beautiful young person whose recordings were just colossally great. But basically the best stuff he ever did was on the Sun record label. ii) In many respects, thinking about it, the movies were a bigger draw to American rockers when they were kids because Elvis wanted to be James Dean and Marlon Brando. I remember being surprised when I heard that Elvis wanted to be a movie star, and that was kind of disappointing because, to me, he was the total rockstar.”

— Mark Knopfler

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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.