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- PEOPLE, Page 53The Eyes Have It
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- By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- When a demo tape was returned by a record company addressed
- to "Residents," the avant-garde group gladly adopted the
- anonymous moniker. Seventeen years and some 20 albums later, THE
- RESIDENTS still won't reveal their identities, which are hidden
- behind masks and luminescent orbs. And without mentioning ELVIS
- PRESLEY by name, they pay homage to rock's biggest star on their
- upcoming album, The King and Eye. Synthesized, melancholy
- versions of Hound Dog and All Shook Up accompany a fable about
- a baby who became King. But, ask the unblinking eyes, King of
- what?
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