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 The article is still too fan-oriented. Elvis Presley: A Penguin Life by Bobbie Ann Mason (Penguin, 2003) reveals another Elvis, a somewhat tragic life filled with strife. The author depicts Elvis's relationship with his mother in ways that demonstrate close mother-child bonds. It is shown how Elvis clung to his mother as a small child and remained close to her throughout her life. Authors such as Peter Guralnick reveal that he was seen by many as a mama's boy, even in his twenties. Material more specifically referring to these important facts has been removed from the Wikipedia article some time ago. Even after his mother's death, Elvis craved maternal care, a need that often influenced his relationships.  

 Mason suggests that the two incidents that most affected Elvis were the death of his twin brother at birth and the death of his mother. Events that deeply influenced Elvis's childhood also include the poverty of his parents, the alcoholism of his mother and his move to Memphis at thirteen. There is no reference to the alcoholism of Elvis's mother in the ""Early life"" section. Furthermore, the Wikipedia article does not mention Elvis's feelings of inferiority, which complicated his personal and professional relationships, most markedly his attitude toward his manager Colonel Parker, his often complicated romances with women and his extravagant spending habits. All this is thoroughly discussed in Mason's book.  

 There is nothing on the unhealthful influence of the Memphis Mafia on Elvis in the article, although it is a fact that Elvis spent day and night with these guys.  

 Mason also points out the interesting irony of Elvis's beginning his career by cultivating an image as a threatening rebel, while actually living as an innocent young man devoted to his mother and eager to please friends and business associates. Yet when Elvis returned from the Army his manager Parker transformed him into a mainstream boy. With similar insights, Mason reveals other facets of Elvis's life, including the paranoia that overcame him later in life. A special section on Colonel Parker's negative influence on Elvis has been removed from the Wikipedia article some months ago. I don't know why. Instead of discussing such important points in an additional section, the Wikipedia article still includes much fan-oriented stuff in the  ""Legacy"", ""Awards and recognition"" and Elvis in the 21st century"" sections.  

 A long critical discussion of the Elvis cult has been deleted. Instead of this comprehensive discussion, there is now only a very brief section of the ""Elvis religion"".  

 There are indeed several improvements. However, the totally irrelevant passage on Elvis's trivial ""Jaycees acceptance speech"" in which he says that he was a dreamer and the hero of comic books, has only recently been removed. (In stumbling across such trivia, the reader would only have been surprised at the singer's naiveté.)  

 There are many more questions. Why is the section about Elvis's misuse of drugs now entitled ""Post mortem""? Wasn't he alive when he took drugs? Why is a section on the Las Vegas jumpsuit era still missing, which, according to current academic research, has feminized Elvis?  

 Furthermore, why does the ""recognition"" section omit any critical voices? It is said in this section that ""Presley has featured prominently in a variety of polls and surveys designed to measure popularity and influence."" But nobody questions whether he is still popular among the younger generation. In an article entitled ""Getting today's teens all shook up over Elvis"", Woody Baird says, ""Teenagers in the 1950s and '60s went wild over Elvis Presley, much to the consternation of their parents, but kids in the new millennium aren't so stirred by rock 'n' roll's original rebel. 'I can't try to sell somebody Elvis who doesn't know who he is . . . that he's not just some guy who's been gone for 30 years,' said Paul Jankowski, chief of marketing for Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc."" Therefore, ""the multimillion dollar Elvis business will try to connect with a new generation of teenage fans."" They endeavor to show up more film clips, photos and other material from the vast Presley archives online. 'We will take our MySpace page and we will focus on expanding our number of friends on MySpace, that kind of thing,' Jankowski said..."" However, Baird concludes, ""Moving Elvis content online should be easy; making Elvis cool again will be more difficult. After all, for most kids, Elvis is the music of their parents' - or grandparents' - generation."" See  Does this sound as if Elvis's ""popularity continues ... with each new generation connecting with him in a significant way,"" as some fans claimed? I don't think so. So why is it not mentioned