![]() Despite sojourns in Las Vegas, Palm Springs and Los Angeles, this is a hometown story. Women with children were sexually off-limits, including his own wife after the birth of their daughter. He remained at heart an adolescent - endearingly goofy, fond of practical jokes and necking. ![]() The second part of Peter Guralnick's exhaustive life - more than 700 pages from army call-up in 1958 to death in 1977 - reveals a powerless figure whose growing awareness of his helplessness lent his decline a tragic dimension.įame brought Elvis no power as such, but he created the illusion via salaried hangers-on whose principal job was to pander to his arrested development. He bridged the hard-edged, rhinestone and show-girl entertainment of Las Vegas and Frank Sinatra - with an emphasis on retinue and prescriptive drugs - and the more transcendental, less sociable approach of those that succeeded him, notably John Lennon for someone so famous Elvis spent an awful lot of time in his room. What this biography makes clear - in a way not apparent at the time - is how Elvis Presley, while appearing unique as the exemplar of rock 'n' roll, belonged snugly to a showbiz lineage. ![]()
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