Elvis...or Michael?

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Nope*. Liz Taylor called him the "king of pop, rock and soul" in 1989, 5 years before he married Lisa Marie.





* I'm reading your post as saying that marrying Lisa Marie was why he called himself the king of pop. Don't know for sure that's how you meant it

You read me wrong. I said "then" as in "and then time passed". And actually Michael Jackson's publicist Bob Jones claims to have invented the title "King of Pop" for Michael Jackson. Liz Taylor called him "king of pop, rock and soul" publicly at an awards show, so she sometimes gets the credit. Either way, he latched on to the name and used it himself in his own publicity.