50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong - Homage

Homage

The famous cover photo, of multiple images of Elvis wearing the gold lamé suit designed by Nudie's of Hollywood, has been copied many times. Album covers so inspired include:

  • Phil Ochs' Greatest Hits album of 1970; not a "greatest hits" album at all but consisting of new original material, ironically subtitled "50 Phil Ochs Fans Can't Be Wrong!"
  • The 1983 album by Rod Stewart, Body Wishes.
  • The Elvis Costello & The Attractions bootleg album of the same name from the 1980s.
  • Blues Traveler's more modest 1,000,000 People Can't Be Wrong of 1994.
  • Blumfeld's second studio album L'Etat Et Moi from 1995.
  • The Fall's compilation 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong from 2004.
  • 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong, also from 2004.
  • 50,000,000 Soulwax Fans Can't Be Wrong from 2005.

The meme has also been adopted to other media, such as:

  • The second album by the group Dread Zeppelin, which is fronted by an Elvis impersonator, from 1991 is titled 5,000,000 in reference to this album; the footnote says "Tortelvis Fans Can't Be Wrong." The cover more obviously spoofs Led Zeppelin's fourth album.
  • The title used verbatim in the lyrics to "The Thanksgiving Song", by Adam Sandler in 1993.
  • The 1997 documentary by Joe Franklin 50,000,000 Joe Franklin Fans Can't Be Wrong.
  • Mindless Self Indulgence's song "You'll Rebel To Anything (As Long As It's Not Challenging)" from their 2005 album of the same name contains the lyrics, "you're telling me that 50,000,000 screaming fans are never wrong, I'm telling you that 50,000,000 screaming fans are fucking morons".
  • Die! Die! Die!'s self-titled debut features a song named "Franz (17 Die! Die! Die! Fans Can't Be Wrong)" in 2006.
  • Steven Pastis, author of comic strip Pearls Before Swine, released a collection in 2010 titled "50,000,000 Pearls Fans Can't Be Wrong."

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Famous quotes containing the word homage:

    “By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “Your business is not to catch men with show,
    With homage to the perishable clay,
    But lift them over it, ignore it all,
    Make them forget there’s such a thing as flesh.
    Your business is to paint the souls of men—”
    —Robert Browning (1812–1889)

    “There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits the evidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)