Alessio Liberati:  

A big Hello to everyone ! My name is Alessio (stands for Alex in english language) and I write from Rome, Italy. I started off on studying the Elvis impact on the country/pop music scenario since I was 14, and this became my main interest since. I also wrote some publication in the past for the italian magazine "MusikBox" regarding the impact of Elvis' phenomenon here in Italy. Unfortunately, here in Italy Elvis never had many people following his music and/or buying his records, as italians were mostly on kinda classical standard pop-melodic italian artist like : Mina - Modugno - Villa - Morandi - etc. Around mid-60's a new beat music came off from UK with The Beatles , and opposite to Elvis, Beatles had many fans in Italy at the time, perhaps due to the notorius Beatles live show they held in Rome back in 1964. Unfortunately, Elvis never made live concerts outside USA during his life (except one only in Canada in 1957) and this is an aspect to consider to understand one of the reason he did not appeal that much in some foreign countries. Only after the Aloha From Hawaii show broadcasted via Satellite that Elvis perform...Expand for more