Garry Gomersall

Husband, father, son. Business leader, coach and IT solution strategist. Entrepreneur, Investor and CEO of SANUK Enterprises Limited. Elvis Fan.

[Garry Gomersall @GarryGomersall]

@ElvisPresley #EPIC Tickets booked for the Toronto @TIFF_NET Premiere of #ElvisPresleyInConcert #TIFF50 . Flying in from the UK to review content relative to my book: https://t.co/RAPaK54pk1 - TCB. Thanks @bazluhrmann

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Barack Obama at his last press briefing with reporters, 2017:

"I have enjoyed working with all of you. That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed, but that's the point of this relationship. You're not supposed to be sycophants. You're supposed to be skeptics. You're supposed to ask me tough questions. You're not supposed to be complimentary, but you're supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power."

[Papageorgio @PapageorgioWV]

I think this was one of the greatest performances ever! And the song is more true today than it was in 1968!❤️❤️

[Evan @daviddunn177]

I had no idea it would take the American people ten years to realize Donald Trump is completely full of shit.

I thought it was pretty obvious back in 2016.

[Garry Gomersall @GarryGomersall]

@krassenstein Trump is a cretinous moron. His level of ignorance is mind blowing. “Art of the deal ?” What a f**king idiot. USA what have you become?

[🌻🌊🇺🇸Lister Resister™🇵🇷🌊🌻 @MisterResiste12]

We live in the World History's dumbest fucking timeline...

[Classic Rock In Pics @crockpics]

Elvis Presley made his landmark debut on The Ed Sullivan Show on September 9, 1956, performing live via remote broadcast from CBS Television City in Los Angeles. With actor Charles Laughton guest-hosting in New York while Ed Sullivan recovered from a car crash, Elvis electrified an estimated sixty million viewers with performances of Don't Be Cruel, Love Me Tender, Ready Teddy, and Hound Dog.

🎸 Elvis’s September 1956 Sullivan debut drew over 80 percent of the television audience, creating a shared nationwide cultural shockwave. Were you or your parents watching TV the night Elvis debuted on Ed Sullivan? 🎸 👇️

[Graceland @VisitGraceland]

On Sept. 9, 1956, Elvis Presley made his first appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” performing “Don’t Be Cruel,” “Love Me Tender,” “Ready Teddy” and “Hound Dog” for an estimated 60 million viewers.

Appearing from Hollywood while filming “Love Me Tender,” Elvis told the audience, “This is probably the greatest honor I have ever had in my life.”

Ed Sullivan was absent that evening as he recovered from a car accident, with Charles Laughton stepping in as host.

[BiffBifford™ 🇺🇸 @TBifford]

🔥June 21, 1977. Elvis Presley was in catastrophic physical decline, filmed by CBS cameras in Rapid City, South Dakota, just six weeks before his death. 🎹💔

Backstage, musicians and the television crew quietly worried he didn't have the stamina to make it through the concert. When he sat down at the grand piano to sing "Unchained Melody," his longtime aide Charlie Hodge had to kneel beside him on the floor just to steady the microphone.

Then Elvis built into the climax.

Stripping away the Vegas showmanship, he reached deep into his chest voice and delivered an effortless, operatic high note that stunned everyone in the arena. You can see the exhaustion in his face, but his vocal instrument remained completely untouchable until the very end. It wasn't just a concert routine—it was an artist pouring the last reserve of his life directly into the song.

Does any live television vocal match the raw emotional weight of this final performance?

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

We’re losing the ability to own anything. Music, movies, software, cloud storage, printers, cars… everything is becoming a subscription. You can’t buy something once and own it. You pay indefinitely for permission to use it. And we call this progress?

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants data centers in space. Nobody wants humanoid robots or flying cars.

We want clean water. We want a stable climate. We want a habitable planet. We want wildlife to survive. We want to live.

[ElvisRose @ElvisRose_]

#ElvisHistory: August 28th, 1971: Elvis Presley receives a lifetime achievement award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. This is one of the few legitimate forms of recognition that Elvis gets from the recording industry during his lifetime.

Only five people had previously won the award:
Bing Crosby
Frank Sinatra
Duke Ellington
Ella Fitzgerald
Irving Berlin

Elvis received the award in his dressing room.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Elvis Presley and Dolly Parton didn’t scold. They entertained. They united people through the power of their music and charisma.

They were old school entertainers in a way that matters: they treated the stage as a common ground, not a pulpit. No manifesto. No sanctimonious inventory of the crowd. They understood that music can unite, not divide.

Elvis didn’t ask what people believed. He made people in the room move together. Dolly didn’t ask who people voted for. She united the audience. That is the most important job of the entertainer: to gather people who would otherwise never stand in the same place and give them a shared experience they did not have to argue about.

They were entertainers first, last, and without apology. That is why they still feel larger than life. They didn’t try to own the culture. They simply created it.

[Official Charts @officialcharts]

He's a Jenius! #PaulHeaton lands his first ever solo Number 1 💿
https://t.co/sDiH8dPPri

[The Linux Foundation @linuxfoundation]

"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)..."

On August 25, 1991, a 21-year-old student sent a message to a Usenet newsgroup. He thought he was just building something fun for himself.

35 years later, that "hobby" is the backbone of global technology:

🚀 Powering helicopters in space with NASA
☁️ Running the global cloud and 100% of the world’s supercomputers
📱 Connecting billions of people
🎮 Redefining the future of handheld gaming

What started as one student's side project became the greatest collaborative technology movement in history. Thank you to every maintainer, contributor, and advocate who made it possible.

Happy 35th Birthday, Linux. Here’s to the power of open source and the next 35 years of building together.

https://t.co/KDN6Coob7F

#Linux35

[Virgin Radio UK @VirginRadioUK]

You Keep It All In is such a TUNE 🎶

Watch hear Paul Heaton and Rianne Downey perform it LIVE on TFI Unseen on the Virgin Radio UK YouTube channel to celebrate @PaulHeatonSolo's new album 'Jenius' ⤵️
https://t.co/C7ALvPr0Ga

[🌻Music 🎶🎻🎷 @khalythai]

Greatest Live song Elvis ever sang "American Trilogy" nobody will ever touch it. There's reason why every musician from Paul McCartney, Lennon and Freddy Mercury say Elvis was the absolute best.