Elvis Presley - Legendan elämä 1935-1977

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. Veteran rock journalist Ray Connolly “contextualizes [his] subject with more empathy than celebrity” ( Library Journal ), placing Elvis not in the garish neon lights of Las Vegas, but back in his mid-twentieth-century Southern world, revealing “how the supremely talented but ultimately enigmatic Presley became an icon at a moment of social transformation” ( National Book Review ). Through countless interviews and original correspondence, Connolly presents a clear-eyed analysis of the ways Elvis’s sovereign 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 becomes a thoughtful celebration of an immortal life.