Being Elvis: a lonely life
(Book)
Author:
Published:
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017.
Format:
Book
Edition:
First American edition.
Physical Desc:
xxi, 362 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Status:
Description
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 rhythm and blues with country to create a completely new kind of music and new way of expressing male sexuality, which 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. The creator of an American sound that resonates today, Elvis remains frozen in time, an enduring American icon who could capture an inner emotion, perhaps of eternal yearning, to which all of us can still relate.
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Durham Adult Biography
B PRESLEY
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East Lyme Public Adult Biography
B PRESLEY, ELVIS (Connolly)
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Meriden Adult Biography
BIO PRESLEY, E
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Wallingford Adult Biographies
B PRESLEY ELVIS CO
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West Haven Main Adult Biography
B PRESLEY [ELVIS]
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Language:
English
ISBN:
9781631492808 (hardcover)
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Connolly, R. (2017). Being Elvis: a lonely life. First American edition. New York, Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Connolly, Ray, 1940-. 2017. Being Elvis: A Lonely Life. New York, Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Connolly, Ray, 1940-, Being Elvis: A Lonely Life. New York, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Connolly, Ray. Being Elvis: A Lonely Life. First American edition. New York, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017.
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