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Author : J. Schaap
Release : 2016
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Elvis Has Left the Building, Or Has He? by : J. Schaap
Download or read book Elvis Has Left the Building, Or Has He? written by J. Schaap. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dylan Jones
Release : 2014-08-14
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 429/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Elvis Has Left the Building by : Dylan Jones
Download or read book Elvis Has Left the Building written by Dylan Jones. This book was released on 2014-08-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An interesting look at how 1977 marked the explosion of punk alongside this heartbreaking (though not altogether surprising) loss of a legend” (USA Today). In the late 1970s, punk music was setting out to destroy everything Elvis Presley had come to represent. But punk couldn’t destroy The King himself—he had already done that, succumbing to his excesses at Graceland on August 16, 1977. Ever since, Elvis has permeated the world in ways that are bizarre and inexplicable: a pop icon while alive, he has become almost a religious icon in death, a modern-day martyr crucified on the wheel of drugs, celebrity culture, junk food, and sex. In Elvis Has Left the Building, Dylan Jones takes us back to those heady days around the time of his death and the simultaneous rise of punk. Evoking the hysteria and devotion of The King’s numerous disciples and imitators, Jones offers a uniquely insightful commentary on Elvis’s life, times, and outrageous demise. Recounting how the artist single-handedly changed the course of popular music and culture, he also delves deep into the cult of The King and reveals what Elvis’s death meant—and still means to us today. “I’m not sure punk would have existed without [Elvis]. In fact I’m not sure a lot of things would have existed without him. Dylan Jones is the right man to ponder such questions.” —Bono “A gripping tale of impossible success and terrible waste and lost beauty that veers from Memphis to Las Vegas and all the way to the broken backstreets of London.” —Tony Parsons, author of The Hanging Club
Author : Charity Tahmaseb
Release : 2013-11-12
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 32X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Elvis Has Left the Building by : Charity Tahmaseb
Download or read book Elvis Has Left the Building written by Charity Tahmaseb. This book was released on 2013-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second generation Elvis impersonator, Elliot, is content with his small-town circuit and regular gigs at the Holiday Inn, until he attracts a fan who has never heard of the King. But stepping free of the shadow cast by both his father and Elvis may prove to be impossible. A short story.
Author : Ted Harrison
Release : 2016-09-15
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 832/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Death and Resurrection of Elvis Presley by : Ted Harrison
Download or read book The Death and Resurrection of Elvis Presley written by Ted Harrison. This book was released on 2016-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no other way to put it: Elvis is the King. Note the present tense: even though Elvis (supposedly) died nearly forty years ago, he has lived on in our hearts, as a sound, as an image, and as an especially vigorous personality. In fact, it’s safe to say no other celebrity has done so quite as well. The Death and Resurrection of Elvis Presley is the story of that afterlife, of Elvis after he left the building. Walking the eccentrically carpeted rooms of Graceland, bidding into stratospheric sums on his auctioned relics, and mingling among the some 200,000 impersonators of his likeness, Ted Harrison offers nothing less than the ultimate Elvis tribute. Harrison begins, of course, in pilgrimage: to Graceland. He shows how Elvis’s estate was pillaged nearly to ruin by his manager but was saved through the deft business acumen and financial vision of his divorced wife, one Priscilla Presley. If Graceland seems holy, that’s because it is: Harrison unveils in Elvis’s allure a deeply spiritual dimension, showing how Elvis fans, over the decades, have anointed their idol with Christ-like qualities. Through Elvis’s extravagance, Harrison raises fascinating links between money and faith, and through Elvis’s life, he shows how the King actually fulfilled a host of roles ranging from hero to martyr to saint. Underpinning the whole story is Elvis’s extraordinary charisma and—lest we forget—his astonishing musical genius. Fascinating, colorful, and deeply informative, this book is a must-have for any fan, anyone who was ever lucky enough to see Elvis alive or who hopes they might still be able to.
Author : C. Love
Release : 2023-11-17
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Elvis Purrsley Has Left The Building by : C. Love
Download or read book Elvis Purrsley Has Left The Building written by C. Love. This book was released on 2023-11-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Yesteryear, the small tourist town where every day is still 1950 or 1960-something. Poodle skirts are in, the sounds of Elvis Presley and The Supremes fill the air, everyone is kind, and bad things never happen... or at least that's what the brochure says. I wasn't looking for trouble when I returned to Yesteryear for my great-aunt's funeral, but I certainly came to the right place. My first surprise was that I'd inherited Aunt Della's beloved cat, Elvis Purrsley. My second surprise was that she left Yesteryear to the cat... but only if her murder is solved within thirty days, which brings me to the third surprise: Aunt Della was murdered, or at least that's what she claimed in the video she left behind. Most of the family thinks Della was crazy to believe the psychic who foretold her death, not to mention leaving the town she founded and most of her estate to a cat and threatening to sell off the town if her murderer wasn't caught before the month was out, but then someone tried to kill again... If no one else is going to take the case seriously, it's up to me and Elvis Purrsley to find the murderer and save the town.
