Careless Love The Unmaking of Elvis Presley (Paperback)
| Author: Peter Guralnick |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
ISBN-10: 0316332976
ISBN-13: 9780316332972
Sku: 30548162
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
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Memphis, March 1960: They left in the aftermath of a blustery winter storm. (from the first line)
They embarked on the fifth tour of the year just two days later. Ginger insisted on staying home to watch her sister Terry give up her crown as the reigning Miss Tennessee, but she rejoined him in Kansas City on the second night. Even with Ginger present, he seemed utterly exhausted. "In spite of what you may hear or you may read, we're here, and we're healthy, and we're doing what we enjoy doing," he announced to the crowd, but no one observing his pale swollen appearance, the awkward slow-motion manner in which he lurched about the stage, or his overall sense of confusion and self-doubt could have been taken in, no matter how much they might have wanted to believe his protestations. It was equally difficult for anyone on the show to believe they would be filming a television special the following day. More and more the feeling grew that they had set out on a doomed voyage, captainless, rudderless, with no hope of turning back.
| Recounts the second half of Elvis Presleys life, from his army service in 1958 Germany through his death in 1977, and focuses on his relationship with manager Colonel Tom Parker. *Author: Guralnick, Peter *Subtitle: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley *Publication Date: 2000/02/10 *Number of Pages: 767 *Binding Type: Paperback *Language: English *Depth: 1.50 *Width: 6.00 *Height: 9.50 |
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Recounts the second half of Elvis Presley's life, from his army service in 1958 Germany through his death in 1977, and focuses on his relationship with manager Colonel Tom Parker.Unrivaled in its scope, detail, authority, and sheer readability, Guralnick's biography of Elvis Presley tells a quintessential American story of one of the most important entertainers of the century. |
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The final volume of Peter Guralnick's two-part Elvis Presley biography begins and ends with two Elvis departures: the first in 1958 for a two year stint in Germany with the US Army, the second his final exit in 1977, on the floor of the bathroom of his Graceland mansion, following an overdose of barbiturates. CARELESS LOVE is a revealingly detailed, acutely written biography that lays bare the daily routines, the relationships between Presley and his inner circle, and the sometimes surreal life of this iconic figure. Guralnick charts the slow post-Army decline of the singer's career, which neither appearances in a succession of terrible movies nor the sharp business practices of his Barnum-like manager, Colonel Tom Parker, did anything to halt. But though he had lost direction, Presley had lost none of his talent, as the author shows in vivid descriptions of mid-'60s gospel recording sessions, and his 1968 comeback TV show was a triumph. However, a vicious circle of personal setbacks, self-parodic shows, and cocktails of drugs prescribed by incompetent physicians to keep the star going contributed to his increasing physical and mental dysfunction; Guralnick's description of his death and the chaotic scenes that followed are some of the most harrowing scenes in the book.
The final volume of Peter Guralnick's two-part Elvis Presley biography begins and ends with two Elvis departures: the first in 1958 for a two year stint in Germany with the US Army, the second his final exit in 1977, on the floor of the bathroom of his Graceland mansion, following an overdose of barbiturates. CARELESS LOVE is a revealingly detailed, acutely written biography that lays bare the daily routines, the relationships between Presley and his inner circle, and the sometimes surreal life of this iconic figure. Guralnick charts the slow post-Army decline of the singer's career, which neither appearances in a succession of terrible movies nor the sharp business practices of his Barnum-like manager, Colonel Tom Parker, did anything to halt. But though he had lost direction, Presley had lost none of his talent, as the author shows in vivid descriptions of mid-'60s gospel recording sessions, and his 1968 comeback TV show was a triumph. However, a vicious circle of personal setbacks, self-parodic shows, and cocktails of drugs prescribed by incompetent physicians to keep the star going contributed to his increasing physical and mental dysfunction; Guralnick's description of his death and the chaotic scenes that followed are some of the most harrowing scenes in the book.
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