I know I say it a lot, but it is all in the video. Is Elvis still alive? The pressures of being that famous. The fact that we didn’t know Elvis that well. We certainly know that outfit, but it told us about as much about Elvis as Rosebud did Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane (1941). I particularly love how they copy the ending of Citizen Kane. In that movie, we are dropped outside the gate the movie started on because we never got to know the person, but just visited a place that houses a collection of stories. Here, we also never got to know the person, and in the aftermath of his death, we only have memories, records, memorabilia, and theories that he isn’t just an influence on every musician out there, but literally out there somewhere. I also love how the articles about him go from dignified goodbyes to a mix of hope and outright exploitation of his legendary status. You get the same transition as the music video visually goes from a museum to wide-open spaces before we are tossed back to the museum, and finally the sled.

Jimmy Murakami of Heavy Metal (1981) fame directed it.

The only other person I found who had a notable credit was producer Michael Algar who produced some episodes of the 1987 TMNT TV Show.

Enjoy!