This isn’t a “go back in time and assassinate” someone question. It’s just their musical career never takes off and thus any music they ever would have made is no longer in this timeline.

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    10 months ago

    Nothing.

    Elvis didn’t invent anything musically, he was just the first white guy to do what Black guys had been doing.

    If it wasn’t Elvis, it would have been someone else a couple months later.

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      10 months ago

      Actually, that was one thing I considered. If he hadn’t become a superstar by never writing a single song, would it have changed the industry’s thoughts on using pretty faces to sell other people’s songs?