Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley

✍ Scribed by Guralnick, Peter

• Book ID: 107522343
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 5 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780316206778

✦ Synopsis

From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture.

Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is the first biography to go past that myth and present an Elvis beyond the legend. Based on hundreds of interviews and nearly a decade of research, it traces the evolution not just of the man but of the music and of the culture he left utterly transformed, creating a completely fresh portrait of Elvis and his world.

This volume tracks the first twenty-four years of Elvis' life, covering his childhood, the stunning first recordings at Sun Records (''That's All Right,'' ''Mystery Train''), and the early RCA hits (''Heartbreak Hotel,'' ''Hound Dog,'' ''Don't Be Cruel''). These were the years of his improbable self-invention and unprecedented triumphs, when it seemed that everything that Elvis tried succeeded wildly. There was scarcely a cloud in sight through this period...