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“Before Elvis went back to performing in Vegas there was a stigma,’ said Jerry Schilling, who later managed the Beach Boys (another group that shunned Vegas). ‘It meant you weren’t an arena artist anymore. The only reason you played Vegas was you couldn’t play anywhere else. Elvis changed that.”
― Richard Zoglin, Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show

“I think Elvis made it OK to play Vegas,” said Tony Brown, who worked in Vegas with Elvis….’Up until then, you thought of Vegas as schlock kinda stuff. But now, when an artist reaches the legacy level and doesn’t want to do arena tours, they come to Las Vegas. It’s an easier gig: you just come down the elevator and go do the show; the production is over the top better than anything you can take on tour. Elvis started that.”
― Richard Zoglin, Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show