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Glasvegas: The world is yours

Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), 11 April 2011

BY THE TIME Elvis Presley was enjoying widespread success in the late 1950s, The Memphis Mafia, The King's motley crew of friends, bodyguards, tour managers and hangers-on, had already gained a reputation as the sort of unaccountable toughs you wouldn't want to cross.

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