Dead Elvis by Death in Vegas

Dead Elvis, the debut album from Death in Vegas, hit British shops on 10 March 1997 and reached America that September, and even the title has a story: Richard Fearless and Steve Hellier had started out signed to Concrete under the name Dead Elvis, until an Irish label already using it forced a rethink, so the band became Death in Vegas and the old name went on the record. It's electronic music with a rock and roll leer, grimy grooves cut with menace and a sense of humour.

This was the only Death in Vegas album with Hellier, and the two sides of the Atlantic even got different sleeves, coloured Elvis graffiti in Britain and a tattoo artist in the States. The video for "Dirt" became a minor hit on MTV's 120 Minutes, and "GBH" later landed on the soundtrack of the 1998 film Homegrown. The Contino Sessions came next.

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