Too Much Monkey Business - Elvis Presley

Ever wondered what would have happened to Elvis and his music had he lived on into the eighties, would rock and roll have lived on with him or would Elvis have had to change with the times or fade away. The truth is that Elvis`s music was a lot more versatile than many might realise and for me the re-release of the much modernised "a little less conversation " in recent times proved this. The Album too much monkey business was released in the year 2000 by the Elvis specialist label FTD, it featured tracks from the original "guitar man" album as well as 10 tracks that had also been given the Felton Jarvis ...  Read the complete review

During his lifetime Elvis Presley's music had been very successful. Unfortunately he died in 1977 and so was unable to create new music. However his record company have repeatedly gone back to his original recordings and tried to modernise them for contemporary audiences. When it works you get fantastic tracks such as the remix of A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION which topped the charts worldwide not too many years ago. The first attempt to do something like this came in 1981 with an album called GUITAR MAN. This featured a selection of original tracks with new overdubs placed on them - the whole production was masterminded by Felton Jarvis, who had been Elvis' ...  Read the complete review