Pink Cadillacs have also been the automobiles of recognition for their top salespeople by Mary Kay Cosmetics.Įlvis Presley appears in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams-he is depicted as driving a pink spaceship.Įlvis' Pink Cadillac was the inspiration for Robert Dunn's musical novel Pink Cadillac (2002). After the public attention to Elvis' car, many individual car owners in the 1950s began to paint their cars various shades of pink.Īlthough the original car was a 1955 four-door sedan, the more replicated version in popular culture is a pink 1959 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible, which has been sold as miniature replicas by many companies including Franklin Mint, and featured in songs and videos about the pink Cadillac. was the only manufacturer to offer pink as a standard color. Pink Cadillacs in popular culture Īt the time, Ford Motor Co. Bush and Prime Minister of Japan Junichiro Koizumi. The car was once again brought to the front drive entrance of Graceland in June 2006, during the visit of President George W. The original pink Cadillac remains on permanent display at Graceland, formerly under a carport for many years, and now resident in the auto museum. On his return from military service in Germany in 1960, Presley lent the car to his US Army buddy Joe Esposito, having bought himself a white with pink roofed 1961 Cadillac Coupe de Ville. (As can be seen in the book "A Boy from Tupelo", from FTD/2012, in 1955 the Cadillac already has the white roof). Having signed his contract with RCA in November 1955, in March 1956 Elvis had the upholstery replaced, the body retouched and roof painted white. On September 2, 1955, Scotty Moore drove the car into a vehicle which was passing a pick-up truck in Texarkana, Texas, causing $1000 of damage. The Pink Cadillac displayed in March 2012 Gladys Presley never had a driver's license, and Elvis drove the car with the members of his band for most of 1955–1956. Once the car was finished Elvis gave it to his mother Gladys as a gift. Art designed a customised pink color for Elvis which he named "Elvis Rose," but the car kept its black roof. Having mentioned a Pink Cadillac in the song " Baby, Let's Play House", the first song recorded by Elvis to appear on a national chart which made #5 on the Billboard Country Singles chart in July 1955 Elvis had the car repainted by Art, a neighbour on Lamar Street. On July 5, 1955, Elvis purchased a new Cadillac Fleetwood Series 60 in blue The car provided transport for Elvis and the Blue Moon Boys, but after the failure of a brake lining, was destroyed in a roadside fire between Hope and Texarkana, Arkansas, on June 5, 1955. In early 1955, Elvis bought his first Cadillac, a 1954 Fleetwood Series 60, which was the color pink. 2.2 Songs and films about pink Cadillacs.So you see - my list of suggestions is really short, thats why I want to have more references here. Genesis - The Waiting Room (Interstellar Overdrive in the beginning, wide keyboard sounds in the Rest of the song)įrank Zappa - The Torture never stops (from "In New York", slow tempo - psychedelic touch) Porcupine Tree - Dark Origins (same style as Dark Matter as well)Įloy - Astral Entrance: Master Of Sensation (reminds me on Shine On You Crazy Diamond as well)Įloy - The Apocalypse (maybe a little bit of Animals) Porcupine Tree - Neural Rust (same style as Dark Matter) Porcupine Tree - Dark Matter (reminds me of Comfortably Numb) Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways (Little Brother of Shine on you crazy Diamond, isn't it?) Porcupine Tree - Radioactive Toy (Live Version on Coma Divine) So I want to keep a focus on the "middle era" from Atom Heart Mother until Animals (and not the atonal early stuff or the more pop orientated later music). You know what all of us will declare as the Pink Floyd Style: slow tempo, repetitive patterns, a slightly depressive mood, psychedelic, simple drums, long song structures, wide keyboard sounds and so on. A lot of bands, who had Pink Floyd-like Songs cannot be compared in total to PF. Yes I know there are a lot of topics on the net about Bands who play music in the style of Pink Floyd and there are always the same names like Porcupine Tree, Anathema, Camel, Eloy, RPWL and so on, but I want to create a list especially with Songs (and not only the artists) and they similarity to Pink Floyd.
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