ok let me try to {hopefully} clear up some confusion about the Marlon Brando reference.
Like some others mentioned, elvis and brando were of the same era and quite similar personality wise- rebels/sex symbols. I think elvis was onces described as "Marlon brando with a guitar".
"And no one learned from your mistakes,
The little prophets go to waste.
All that's left in any case,
Is advertising space."
Elvis was the prophet, people didn't/wouldn't learn from his mistakes. Like elvis had died depressed/fat/addicted to drugs so too did Brando.
Robbie Williams is hypothesising that could elvis look at how things havn't changed since he died, he would be disapointed that he died in vain and all he, and his fellow celebrities are good for are advertising space.
ok let me try to {hopefully} clear up some confusion about the Marlon Brando reference.
Like some others mentioned, elvis and brando were of the same era and quite similar personality wise- rebels/sex symbols. I think elvis was onces described as "Marlon brando with a guitar".
"And no one learned from your mistakes, The little prophets go to waste. All that's left in any case, Is advertising space."
Elvis was the prophet, people didn't/wouldn't learn from his mistakes. Like elvis had died depressed/fat/addicted to drugs so too did Brando.
Robbie Williams is hypothesising that could elvis look at how things havn't changed since he died, he would be disapointed that he died in vain and all he, and his fellow celebrities are good for are advertising space.