CONTENTS

Prologue

1 The Family

2 Tupelo

3 Memphis

4 Marty

5 Star Time

6 The “Opry” and the “Hayride”

7 The Colonel

8 1956—Runaway Success

9 Hollywood

10 Movie Stars and Everything

11 Lamar

12 Graceland

13 “Damn’d to Everlasting Fame!”

14 Gladys

15 The Tilt

16 Germany

17 Fun and Frauleins

18 Home

19 Manchild in the Promised Land

20 Junior

21 Bobby

22 Hack Time

23 Scatter

24 Changes

25 Priscilla

26 “All Guns Poolside!”

27 The Female Elvis

28 Million-Dollar Shroud: The Movies and the Music

29 Hill and Range

30 Fallout

31 The Guru

32 Headaches and Hallucinations: The Middle Sixties

33 Flying High

34 Showdown

35 “Ride ’em, Cowboy!”

36 The Fall

37 “Love, Honor, Cherish, and Comfort”

38 New Beginnings

39 The Comeback Special

40 The Memphis Sessions

41 Sin City

42 The Final Decade: Badges and Badmen

43 “The Wrecking Crew”

44 Spiral

45 Meltdown, 1973

46 The Turning Point

47 Billy and Jo

48 “An Emotionally Unstable Boy”

49 “Slow Road to Death”

50 Broken Bonds

51 The Slide

52 “Breathe for Me!”

Epilogue: The Pledge

Index

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