Beethoven and Elvis

Ways they are the same:

1. They are both dead
2. They were both men
3. They were both eccentric
4. They both lived above their means
5. They both had big bellies in their later years
6. They both listened to opera
7. They both died at home
8. They both wore scarves
9. They were born lower-middle class
10. Their music is difficult to categorize into just one genre


Ways they are different:

1. Beethoven refused pain killers on his death bed
Elvis died because of pain killers
2. Beethoven wrote his own music
3. Beethoven never had a concert in Hawaii
4. Elvis was considered "good looking" by the standards of his day; Beethoven was not very good looking
5. Elvis sold records; Beethoven sold leather bound manuscripts of his compositions
6. Beethoven did not have a Colonel
7. Beethoven was an accomplished musician and composer
8. Beethoven was an original
9. Beethoven never did what any one told him unless he wanted to
10. Beethoven did not have a dentist's chair in his bathroom.