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Elvis Presley: The Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan

Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, December 1972

I'M GETTING pretty sick of all this talk about what a gross Tom Jones imitation Elvis has become. Baby fat and other people’s songs, indeed. Christ, Elvis is almost 40, why can’t we let him age gracefully?

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