The 1970s band Elvis Presley immediately fell in love with: “I understand the whole thing”Mercifully, the world never got to hear Elvis Presley’s opinions on much of the contemporary rock landscape, given that ‘The King’ left the building back in 1977. In actuality, Presley was famously disparaging about much of contemporary rock post-1964, by which time his own heyday was rapidly drawing to a close. Aside from that, though, the performer didn’t often delve into his own musical opinions, particularly when it came to the emerging rock sound of the 1970s. According to his stepbrother, Billy Stanley, in fact, Presley was an appreciator of bubblegum hard rockers Kiss during his later years. “I understand the whole thing” is hardly a ringing endorsement of the group, nor is it a review that any up-and-coming rock band would hope to receive, even by a figure as important to the fabric of the music as Elvis Presley.