Elvis’ ‘Comeback Special’ still relevant, 50 years later

MEMPHIS, Tennessee --- Elvis Presley wanted an honest answer. Steve Binder gave him one. Presley was meeting Binder for the first time in Binder's office in Los Angeles in 1968. A music and television producer, Binder had been asked to put together an NBC television special featuring Presley, who had become more of a movie actor than a rock 'n' roll singer in the 1960s when the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were dominating the rock world. Presley and Binder talked for about an hour about music and established a rapport, Binder recalls. Then Presley popped the question: "What do you think of my career?" "I was young and brash in those days," Binder told The Associated Press ...

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