• Under-Elvised Under-Elvised By the St. Louis Post-Dispatch – December 19, 2004 One reason we’re just wage slaves and not entrepreneurs is that we always thought “Elvis” was a noun – a proper noun at that – most often referring
• Under-Elvised
Under-Elvised
By the St. Louis Post-Dispatch – December 19, 2004
One reason we’re just wage slaves and not entrepreneurs is that we always thought “Elvis” was a noun – a proper noun at that – most often referring to the late Elvis Presley, who hardly needs an introduction.
But Robert F.X. Sillerman, a New York media entrepreneur, knows differently. There are in this world, he declared, “jurisdictions that are still under-Elvised.”
So on Thursday, Mr. Sillerman announced that he was buying the business that controls Mr. Presley’s name and likeness, a music publishing catalog and rights to operate Graceland, the Memphis mansion where Mr. Presley died in 1977. The seller, in a deal worth about $100 million, was Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of The King.
The world’s fully-Elvised jurisdictions last year spent $44.9 million on Elvis-related stuff, generating $12 million in profits for Elvis Presley Enterprises, which is a lot of peanut butter-and-nanner sandwiches, as they say at Graceland.
Thankyouverymuch.
