Elvis was the greatest scam in history. Never wrote a song. Never played an instrument.

Troll level: Boss

He played guitar, bass and piano, and often toyed with instruments like the drums, accordion and ukulele. He was credited for co-writing a few songs.

They didn't call him The King for nothing.

Hey, a**hat JBran. Guess what?

There are songwriters who don’t sing nor play instruments or do so badly.

There are instrumentalists who don’t sing nor write songs or do so badly.

And yes, there are singers who don’t write songs nor play instruments or do so badly.

So place it where the sun don’t shine…and do so badly.

Actually, Elvis co-wrote several songs. Here's a link...

https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/103/works

Watch Schilling and Krogh tell the story on youtube, they were there when Elvis met Nixon. Elvis had a serious badge collection. When he discovered that a friend had a Narcotics badge, he wanted one too. He first went to the head of the FBI to get it to no avail.

Finally, he decided to get it from the President himself. He basically snowed that president to get that badge for his collection. He didn't do anything after getting it. Schilling, Priscilla, and the Memphis Mafia all state that Elvis didn't hate the Beatles and had no plans to spy on them or anyone. He simply wanted the badge and said what he said to get it. Stop making it more than it was. It was simply a badge collection. I highly suggest you watch the video, very very entertaining to listen to both Schilling and Krogh.


https://youtu.be/ZaMyHw6NeXo

The movie Elvis & Nixon was fairly accurate though has some inconsistencies as most bios and retellings do.

Hmm, what flavor of MC Troll is OP, I wonder:

A) Millennial whose entire worthless contribution to the world is to declare every icon and legend of the past 100 years "overrated"? And thinks he's so cool, clever and daring to rush to an online site to declare it?

B) GenZ, who has so little cultural history or knowledge that he literally doesn't know that 90% of the most famous singers of all time never, ever wrote their own songs?

C) Foreign national troll farmer, who camps out at sites like this one to trash and bash any American or in some cases British icon and legend.

D) Bored, lonely, unemployed, antisocial loser who shitposts because they either thrive on the negative attention or have chosen arguing with people as a way to pass the time in an otherwise boring, uneventful life?

The greatest vocalists of all time were not "singer songwriters". How is it a scam if you have a perfect voice, close to operatic in range, but don't write songs? The "singer songwriter" is a thing that arose in the 70s, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, etc. Now it's expected, isn't it? Taylor Swift writes good songs and sings well. Is she superior to Elvis? Ask her. Which one of these multitalented people do you think is more talented than Elvis, with a better voice? Elvis was hurt when John Lennon criticized him for wasting his talent by making movies. But the Beatles only existed because Elvis came first. Ask Paul McCartney. Same with Springsteen and many others. Elvis was their inspiration to become a musician.