Las Vegas fails to lift Moby up

Dance star Moby has revealed he was left disappointed by Las Vegas because he'd hoped to find a city stooped in the glamour of legendary stars such as Elvis and Frank Sinatra.

Dance star Moby has revealed he was left disappointed by Las Vegas because he'd hoped to find a city stooped in the glamour of legendary stars such as Elvis and Frank Sinatra.

While the hitmaker has made several visits, the New Yorker is always left unimpressed at some of the odd characters he runs into there.

He says: "The first time I came here (Las Vegas) I had visions of Elvis and the Rat Pack. I imagined an odd, degenerate glamour. But after seven or eight visits I've never seen anything remotely glamorous about Las Vegas.

"It's hard to feel excited about gambling when you're at the nickel slots in between a 75-year-old woman with emphysema and some truck driver who's been there for three days on a crystal meth bender."

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