>Due to Presley's busy touring schedule, Sholes needed to get him into the studio as soon as possible to record a follow-up to "Heartbreak Hotel". On April 14, 1956, Presley and his band chartered a small propeller airplane to Nashville for one day of recording between shows. En route from Amarillo, the airplane developed engine trouble and fell through the sky several times. Upon arrival in Nashville, Presley and his band were completely rattled.
How would history be different if that plane went down and never went back up?
>>127100316 (OP)That'd wild. He cut those early rockabilly tunes at Sun already, but he was still more of a regional star. It's hard to think rock itself would have gone much further than that without Heartbreak and all his hits and TV stuff afterward.. And then no Gene Vincent or Eddie Cochrane or Buddy.. maybe not even Chuck Berry or Bo Diddley would have been as big in the same way. I could still see them getting big as some fresh new versions of Blues.
>>127100316 (OP)Probably not much would have changed
>>127100316 (OP)Everything. artists such as Sinatra, nat King cole, dean martin, probably would’ve remained as the gold standard for pop stardom well into the '60s.
>>127101336That would have been a better world tbqh
>>127100316 (OP)He would be remembered as the James Dean of r&r. The tragedy would be his legacy and cultists would pour over his short discography like a sacred text and fantasize about what might've been.
>>127100316 (OP)I had no idea that happened to him. Can you imagine living through that? That's fucking crazy.
