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Title: Careless Love : The Unmaking of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick ISBN: 0-316-33297-6 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 10 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.99 (67 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Masterful and stunningly sad
Comment: I was not an Elvis fan before casually picking this up in an airport to have something to read on my flight. Now I can hardly pass a day (or sometimes hour) without thinking about him thanks to this incredible masterpiece of a biography. If the aim of a biography is to guide you to the subject on a personal level, tell you something about them that you never knew before, inspire you learn more about them then Guralnick has accomplished this and more. One of the most fascinating and enlightening aspects of the 2 volume work (Last Train To Memphis) comes in the form of Elvis' recording sessions. To understand him as a person, to truly give him the utter respect that is due him as the ultimate musician, you have to get into those recording sessions and sit alongside him, watch his reactions, listen to his comments, gauge his moods. Guralnick has managed to gain us entrance to these sessions and you are there. At the close of this book beware - even though you know the ending you keep hoping beyond hope that it turns out differently because you will love Presley. You will grieve for him, you will miss him and you will be furious at the utter waste of a genius. Above all, you will be grateful for his life, what he brought us while he was here and to Peter Guralnick for bringing him back to us, if just for the time it takes to finish the book. Thankyou Mr Guralnick.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Pinnacle of rock and roll biography
Comment: As a preface, I'm a fan of rock music and as Elvis was the personification of rock in the late fifities, I'm also a fan of his early pre-movie work. Taken together the two volumes are a masterwork of rock biography and should be the standard set for rock bios to come. This volume is a retelling of the long spiral down from his Army years to his last days. It's less sensational than the Goldman work of several years ago and more penetrating. Mr. Gurainick chronicles the change in his later years by showing how his changing attitudes affected his concert performances and set list. Some parts changed my views of the last years. Others confirmed some already held opinions Most importantly, when I finished the book, I had a sense of sadness at the waste of talent as poor judgments steer him from his 50's greatness to the mediocrity of his Hollywood and Vegas years. We really do see the "Unmaking" of the man portrayed in Last Train to Memphis.
Rating: 5
Summary: Well Written and Researched Tale of the King
Comment: There is one way to describe this book - wow, what a story.
The writing is just flat out good. Once you start reading be prepared to finish, except for those pesky breaks to sleep and work.
A very well written account of Elvis's life and actions in and out of the recording studio with lots of details, lots of hanky panky, road trips, recording sessions, flights, drugs, buying Cadillacs, the whole mess. Basically Elvis spent every cent he made. The colonel took each dollar and sent 50 cents to the IRS to keep Elvis out of trouble but Elvis and his "mafia" lived like kings where money was no object. If he was in the mood he would just pick up the phone and buy cars, trucks, land, food, whatever was his fancy. When he died Priscilla actually started to manage the finances and Graceland and then after he was dead, the money really increased.
With his love of music and his drive to create, he had hit after hit, a lull and then more hits, movies, hits, lulls, Las Vegas, and on and on. There were no limits until he came in collision with obesity and drugs. It all became very depressing and then it ended. Elvis came close to pulling back and recovering a few times but was unable or unwilling or not intelligent enough to see what was happening to himself. In that sense he was alone and in charge.
An enthralling and well written blockbuster that stays in your hands until the last page.
Jack in Toronto
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Title: Last Train to Memphis : The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick ISBN: 0316332259 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Elvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, Pricilla Beaulieu Presley, Sandra Jarmon ISBN: 0425091031 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: August, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Elvis Day by Day : The Definitive Record of His Life and Music by Ernst Jorgensen, Peter Guralnick ISBN: 0345420896 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Elvis: Unknown Stories Behind the Legend by Jim Curtin, Renata Ginter, James J. Curtin ISBN: 1580291023 Publisher: Celebrity Books Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Colonel : The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley by Alanna Nash ISBN: 0743213017 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 15 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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