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DIABLISS Sexy, of course, is a matter of taste and it would be silly to argue over taste. But there are a number of candidates for more talented. Evis's talents were vocals and dancing; he was not much of an instrumentalist.
Jim Morrison didn't dance, but he sure could sing and he himself wrote most of his stuff - highly talented - and a slightly younger generation found him the sexiest man alive.
Michael Jackson, who wrote over 100 of his own songs, was a far better dancer than Elvis and - I'll say it - in his own way every bit as good a singer. And many found him highly sexy.
Yet a different generation found the young Axl Rose or Kurt Cobain to be the sexiest men alive; both extremely talented and "mysterious."
And then there's Freddy Mercury. Again, sexy is a matter of taste but both men and women found him highly sexy. And, with his 3 octave range, he could out-siing anybody else on stage. Wrote a lot of his own stuff too.
With all that said, of course Elvis is the sexiest most talented most mysterious to you and some of your generation. Rock stars connect with us when we and they at a certain age. It's like a first love. They help awaken new parts of our understanding and our libido, and it can only happen once for each of us. Which person does it depends on when and where we're born.
I'm sure I'm leaving dozens of names off the list - Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, David Lee Roth, etc etc. "It's every generation throws a hero up the pop charts" in the words of Paul Simon.
P.S. I'm a big big fan of the younger Elvis; I recently watched that movie about his life. It made the point that his talent was mostly squandered by his manager; very sad.
