Being Elvis: A Lonely Life

by Ray Connolly

Book Overview

Elvis Presley is a giant figure in American popular culture, a man whose talent and fame were matched only by his later excesses and tragic end. A godlike entity in the history of rock and roll, this twentieth-century icon with a dazzling voice blended gospel and traditionally black rhythm and blues with country to create a completely new kind of music and new way of expressing male sexuality, which simply blew the doors off a staid and repressed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631492802
• ISBN13: 9781631492808
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"