The Beatles' number-ones album had 27 tracks; Elvis's has 30 - the equivalent of his amps going up to 11. Sure, the Fabs may have had more enduring influence on different forms of music, but Elvis sired them and, in any case, was equally experimental, musically and sometimes even sociologically. His still strikingly direct chart-toppers cover genres from urban blues to bossa nova, and subjects from feminism (Hard Headed Woman) to civil rights (In the Ghetto). Crucially, though, Elvis defined pop as the ultimate outlet for human emotion. From Heartbreak Hotel to Suspicious Minds, the person singing these songs is damaged and sexual. He is, thus, the blueprint for every extreme pop persona from John Lydon to Morrissey. This includes JXL's dance remix of A Little Less Conversation. To think there are crackpots who think the King of Rock is dead.