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Flashback: History's Unintended Consequences

Bonus Episode 8: How a Haircut Changed Music History

Flashback: History's Unintended Consequences

iHeartPodcasts and OZY

Society & Culture, History

4.6818 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

After a 23-year-old Elvis Presley submitted to an Army barber in March 1958, rock and roll, and American life, were never quite the same.

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0:00.0

Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.

0:06.1

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0:06.9

Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including romanticity, autobiographies, true crime, and more.

0:19.6

Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their

0:22.9

flight amazon music unlimited now includes audible no way download the amazon music app now to start

0:28.7

listening terms apply march 24th 1958 the press dubbed it black monday the tempo is hut twoutt, two, three, four, for private Presley.

0:39.7

The king of rock and roll will be keeping time to non-hip bugle calls.

0:43.6

That day, Elvis Presley reported for duty in the U.S. Army

0:46.9

and for a haircut at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas,

0:50.2

along with about 70 reporters and photographers.

0:53.1

The gyrating guitarist departure from the public eye left his blue-gene fans all shook up so we hear.

0:58.3

But Elvis doesn't seem to mind at all.

1:01.2

An army barber shaved off the king's rebellious sideburns and dark locks as the cameras flashed.

1:06.8

Elvis joked as his hair fell to the floor.

1:09.5

Well, hair today, gone tomorrow.

1:17.9

I'm Sean Braswell. Welcome to another bonus episode of flashback on a fateful moment from history.

1:24.4

Black Monday marked the start of a two-year military hiatus for the most famous person on the

1:29.3

planet. It was a day that changed the course of Elvis's life and career, but it would do even more

1:35.3

than that. In 1958, the 23-year-old sex symbol was at the very peak of his era-defining powers,

1:41.3

and the loss of that famous hair and his temporary disappearance

1:45.6

from the public eye would impact the course of American music and pop culture for years

1:50.4

to come.

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