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- Release Year
- 2018
- ISBN
- 9781631494017
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
1631494015
ISBN-13
9781631494017
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237934186
Product Key Features
Book Title
Being Elvis : a Lonely Life
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Composers & Musicians, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Emotions
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
11.5 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.6 in
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Dewey Edition
23
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Ray Connolly's Being Elvis contains the authentic spontaneity and electricity that we all cherish as the essence of Elvis. Sprinkled not with mere rhinestones but with true gems of revelation, his new biography has finally found the sweet spot between the poles of lurid flash and scholarly abundance.
Dewey Decimal
782.42166092
Synopsis
Elvis Presley is a giant figure in American popular culture, a man whose talent and fame were matched only by his later excesses and tragic end. A godlike entity in the history of rock and roll, this twentieth-century icon with a dazzling voice blended gospel and traditionally black rhythm and blues with country to create a completely new kind of music and new way of expressing male sexuality, which simply blew the doors off a staid and repressed 1950s America. In Being Elvis veteran rock journalist Ray Connolly takes a fresh look at the career of the world's most loved singer, placing him, forty years after his death, not exhaustively in the garish neon lights of Las Vegas but back in his mid-twentieth-century, distinctly southern world. For new and seasoned fans alike, Connolly, who interviewed Elvis in 1969, re-creates a man who sprang from poverty in Tupelo, Mississippi, to unprecedented overnight fame, eclipsing Frank Sinatra and then inspiring the Beatles along the way. Juxtaposing the music, the songs, and the incendiary live concerts with a personal life that would later careen wildly out of control, Connolly demonstrates that Elvis's amphetamine use began as early as his touring days of hysteria in the late 1950s, and that the financial needs that drove him in the beginning would return to plague him at the very end. With a narrative informed by interviews over many years with John Lennon, Bob Dylan, B. B. King, Sam Phillips, and Roy Orbison, among many others, Connolly creates one of the most nuanced and mature portraits of this cultural phenomenon to date. What distinguishes Being Elvis beyond the narrative itself is Connolly's more subtle examinations of white poverty, class aspirations, and the prison that is extreme fame. As we reach the end of this poignant account, Elvis's death at forty-two takes on the hue of a profoundly American tragedy. The creator of an American sound that resonates today, Elvis remains frozen in time, an enduring American icon who could "seamlessly soar into a falsetto of pleading and yearning" and capture an inner emotion, perhaps of eternal yearning, to which all of us can still relate. Intimate and unsparing, Being Elvis explores the extravagance and irrationality inherent in the Elvis mythology, ultimately offering a thoughtful celebration of an immortal life., A "sympathetic and exceptionally well-written account" (USA Today), Ray Connolly's biography of the King soars with "spontaneity and electricity" (Preston Lauterbach)., Hailed by critics for its "lithe account of the Elvis story" (Booklist), Being Elvis takes a fresh look at the career of the world's most beloved singer-a man whose talent and fame were matched only by his later excesses and tragic end. This "heart-felt appreciation" (Alanna Nash) places Elvis Presley not in the garish neon lights of Las Vegas, but back in his mid-twentieth-century Southern world, brilliantly revealing "how the supremely talented but ultimately enigmatic Presley became an icon at a moment of social transformation" (National Book Review). Maintaining an empathetic point of view as a devoted Fan of Elvis's revolutionary artistry. Ray Connolly offers "true gems of revelation ... find[ing] the sweet spot between the poles of lurid flash and scholarly abundance" (Preston Lauterbach). Combing through countless interviews and original correspondence, Connolly presents a clear-eyed analysis of the ways Elvis's undoubted talent was squandered-by those around him, particularly the machinations of "Colonel" Tom Parker, and by Elvis himself. While exploring the extravagance and irrationality in the Elvis mythology, Being Elvis is ultimately a thoughtful celebration of an immortal life. Book jacket.
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