A constant theme of the forthcoming book is the fragile nature of inspiration versus theft, and one of the prime examples of this is the furore over Elvis' version of "Hound Dog". For decades, uninformed critics have proclaimed that Elvis stole Big Mama Thornton's hit and, as such, stole from black culture. The most obvious points to make here are that (a) "Hound Dog" was not written by Thornton but by two white Jewish boys from Los Angeles, and (b) Elvis recorded it in Ju