Gene Simmons says Zimbabwe, France have nothing on US music: 'Elvis, baby'

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00:00I want to talk about why this is called the American Music, you got to stop there, American

00:08Music Fairness Act. Yes, it's an act that's fair because there isn't fairness ongoing right now,

00:15but it's American music, America. Last time I checked, Zimbabwe gave the world no music.

00:22I can't sing you a French song and nobody else. It's America's music that rules this planet.

00:29Elvis, baby, the king. Elvis, who sang hundreds and hundreds of songs, and I met the gentleman

00:39when he was alive, and sadly, Elvis never got a penny for all the times, all the millions

00:46of times that his music was played around the world. If you go to Africa, you ain't nothing

00:52anybody, you hear that music. That is our emissary. That's bigger and cooler and better than any

01:00foreign minister that goes on. American culture spreads with our music, with our pop culture.

01:07Elvis never got a penny.

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