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Title: Last Train to Memphis : The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick ISBN: 0-316-33225-9 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (45 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Entrancing read
Comment: This book is one of the best, if not the best, I've ever read about Elvis Presley. It is very well written in an original way. I'm almost through reading it for the second time. To be able to get all of the information in this book, it is a must read more than once! You won't be able to put it down. Not only is it a great book for Elvis fans, but also for the avid reader. It describes Elvis' influences and surroundings and people in his early life and career in an accurate, yet exciting, way. This insightful biography of Elvis will open your eyes to more than just his image. It will help you understand the "real" Elvis. Emotions run high as you read about his first gigs, girlfriends, frenzied fans, Hollywood life, army concerns and his Mother. To own "Last Train to Memphis" is an inspiration.
Rating: 5
Summary: This REALLY IS one of the best biographies of anybody, ever!
Comment: Extremely well-written bio, it took me right back to the 50's. Shows how important Sam Phillips was in the genesis of Elvis' "new" style of music. Gives glimpses into the King's initially very conservative moral stand - no drinking or smoking. Sometimes he even read from the Bible to his dates.
The book takes us to the day he is shipped out to Germany. Towards the later chapters, darkness seems to creep into Elvis' life. He is very fearful, and the death of his mother appears to almost destroy his self-confidence. It gives great insight into just how and why Elvis' music was truly revolutionary. Shows how Elvis rose to the top thanks to three forces. First of course was his own talent, drive, ambition and energy. Then there was Sam Phillips who not only recognized that this phenomenon was totally new and different, but helped steer Elvis in the right direction musically. And finally there was the very clever Colonel Tom Parker, who was like a field general obsessed with effectively promoting Elvis' career.
All in all, this book is hard to put down - in fact one wishes it would never end because it is such an enjoyable read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Guralnick Gives Us Back the Music!
Comment: Peter Guralnick -- with both love and meticulous scholarship -- has written a supremely ethical work of cultural archaeology.
With meticulous care and fairness -- but with no sugarcoating whatsoever -- he excavates Elvis out of the layers of rumor, innuendo, and mystery that have conspired over the years to make him a caricature and a joke rather than a human being.
Gurlanick gives us back the artist (who first thrilled me on 78s) and exorcizes so much of the snobby and dismissive trashy gossip (Goldman) that has obscured Elvis for almost 40 years.
I don't mean that a saint emerges. No way. But in Guralnick's telling, a brilliant musician and excruciatingly vulnerable human being pushes aside the fat guy in the gold Vegas suit.
The result? The music -- in all its glory and raw excitement -- returns to take its rightful and deserved place.
The best books (with Guralnick's 2nd volume) about rock and roll ever written.
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Title: Careless Love : The Unmaking of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick ISBN: 0316332976 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 10 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Elvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley ISBN: 0425091031 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Elvis Day by Day by Peter Guralnick, Ernst Jorgensen ISBN: 0345420896 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Elvis: Unknown Stories Behind the Legend by Jim Curtin, Renata Ginter ISBN: 1580291023 Publisher: Celebrity Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday by Farah Jasmine Griffin ISBN: 0345449738 Publisher: One World Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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