Amis, Martin*. Elvis and Andy: US Males. (In The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971 - 2000.)

'Elvis was an enigma' writes Torgoff, ' a walking, breathing paradox.'  Oh no he wasn't.  Indeed, in the circumstances it is hard to imagine a character of more supercharged banality.  Elvis was a talented hick destroyed by success: what else is new?

* New intellectual crush burgeoning here.  I mean, snide intellectual Brit!  Whose linguistic rhythms resemble those of Paul Theroux, but with more self-deprecation!  Hello!  Yum!  There will be lots more snippets of him.