President, you got your show to run" - "I was a dreamer" - "It's very hard to live up to an image" - "Sorry that I didn't break his goddamned neck" - "If you want me to leave" - "I'd rather be unconscious than miserable" - "I'm self-destructive, I know" - "I get carried away very easily" - "I don't know who to talk to anymore" - "I'm just so tired of being Elvis Presley" - "A lonely life ends"Īccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:18:42 Autocrop_version 0.0.4_books-20210916-0.1 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40274807 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier " - "The only thing worse than watching a bad movie" - "If you guys are just going to sit and stare" - "I know that I'm a joke in this town" - "Some of you maybe think that Elvis is Jesus Christ" - "What am I going to do if they don't like me?" - "And what was I thinking?" - "I want musicians who can play every kind of music" - "I don't want some sonofabitch crazy bastard" - "Mr. he's the Devil himself" - "I'm like a Mississippi bullfrog" - "Why should music contribute to juvenile delinquency?" - "The colored folks have been singing and playing" - "Imagine! A Memphis boy with Natalie Wood" - "I hate to get started in these jam sessions" - "I wish we was poor again" - "Hang up your pretty stocking" - "This rancid-smelling aphrodisiac, rock and roll" - "I'm lucky to be in a position to give" - "Wake up, Mama" - "The world is more alive at night" - "There was a little girl that I was seeing" - "Whatever I become, will be what God has chosen for me" - "I didn't have any say-so in it all" - The schoolgirl who carried a derringer in her bra - "If we can control sex. "Well, the bear shall be gentle" - "Don't you worry none, Mama" - "I would just sit there in class" - "I don't sound like nobody" - "What the hell y'all doin' in there?" - "What happened, what happened?" - "Doesn't everybody love their parents?" - "That Colonel. Includes bibliographical references and index What was stopping him? BEING ELVIS takes a clear-eyed look at the most-loved entertainer ever, and finds an unusual boy with a dazzling talent who grew up to change popular culture a man who sold a billion records and had more hits than any other singer, but who became trapped by his own frailties in the loneliness of fame Why? In the Seventies, as the hits rolled in again, and millions of fans saw him in a second career as he sang his way across America, he talked of wanting to tour the world. Though he daydreamed of becoming a serious film actor, instead he grew to despise his own movies and many of the songs he had to sing in them. Made rich and famous beyond his wildest imaginings when he mortgaged his talent to the machinations of his manager, 'Colonel' Tom Parker, there would be an inevitable price to pay. The circumstances of his poor beginnings in the American South, which, as he blended gospel music with black rhythm and blues and white country songs, helped him create rock and roll, had left him with a lifelong vulnerability. With his voice and style influencing succeeding generations of musicians, he should have been free to sing any song he liked, to star in any film he was offered, and to tour in any country he chose. On the outside he was all charm, sex appeal, outrageously confident on stage and stunningly gifted in the recording studio. What was it like to be Elvis Presley? What did it feel like when impossible fame made him its prisoner? As the world's first rock star there was no one to tell him what to expect, no one with whom he could share the burden of being himself - of being Elvis. Xxi, 362 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm
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