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The false rumors just won’t die. Some music fans who do not know the true history of Elvis Presley and rock ‘n’ roll are quick to spread untrue statements that either Elvis was racist or that he stole music from black artists and never gave them credit.

“I don’t think he [Elvis] ripped ’em off,” B.B. King said. “I think once something has been exposed, anyone can add or take from it if they like. He was just so great, so popular, and so hot – and so anything that he played became a hit. To me, they didn’t make a mistake when they called him The King.”
All the black artists of the day loved Elvis, and in the 1950s, Presley’s music was popular in the black community. As noted by Michael Bertrand, author of Race, Rock and Elvis, between April 1956 and September 1958, Presley had 22 songs among the Top 15 on Billboard’s rhythm and blues charts – charts that were “meant to capture the tastes of black listeners and buyers.”
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