Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show

by Richard Zoglin

Book Overview

The story of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time.

The conventional wisdom is that Las Vegas is what destroyed Elvis Presley, launching him on a downward spiral of drugs, boredom, erratic stage behavior, and eventually his fatal overdose. But in Elvis in Vegas, Richard Zoglin takes an alternate view, arguing that Vegas is where the King of Rock and Roll resurrected his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501151193
• ISBN13: 9781501151194
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Disappointed

This book really has nothing to do with Elvis except that he changed the pay scale, and types of acts that they have in Vegas. The book goes into the building of Vegas from the mid 1800's to now. It was once a Morman holdover for travelers. If your looking for a book about Elvis' Vegas days this isn't it.