This is now regarded as a somewhat seminal article that warned that a "back to grass roots" music scene was necessary in order to challenge the status quo of the rock dinosaurs and the increasingly stagnant music scene. That movement was already in its nascent stages and a few months later it would, as everyone now knows, explode into the national consciousness as punk.

As a counterpoint to Mick's tribute we have posted a report by Mick from the NME in 1974 as well as a new link to comic strip story originally published in Rock 'n' Roll Madness Funnies comic book in 1973. These two examples give an idea of where Mick's head was at in the few years immediately prior to Elvis's death as it was becoming apparent that all was not quite right at Chez Graceland. Rumours were starting to abound and people were questioning the sanity of Elvis and his behaviour. In a somewhat tongue-in-cheek manner Mick Farren suggests There Is No Truth In The Rumour That Elvis Is Losing His Marbles.

The Vince Eugene Story, although a play on Gene Vincent's name, is undoubtedly a piss take of Elvis right down to Vince Eugene's country roots and the films with titles like 'Hula Heaven', and was written by Mick Farren and drawn by Dave Gibbons.