All This Useless Beauty
Ah, Elvis. And two of my all-time favourite songs.
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All elvis is good elvis … but if you are going to impose a heirarchy, then i’d have to put Healing Hands and Couldn’t Call it Unexpected no 4 before these two. Saw him sing the latter unaccompanied at the end of his Sydney show in … 99?ish. Superb.