He began with a child’s guitar that his mother scrimped and saved to buy for him, and worked his way up the ladder. He was ostracized at school, but found his greatest love was not in the halls of academia anyway. She accommodated this and more, and between this and the fact that there were no other children in the family (apart from his twin, who was stillborn), no diagnosis was necessary. His closer-than-average relationship with his mother probably was the saving factor here. If he were alive today, he might be diagnosed as OCD (my own conclusion) though his family was poor enough to qualify for the first public housing, he has his very own plate, his very own knife, and his very own fork, and if anyone else had used it, no matter how many times it had been washed, he would not eat. A pair of musicians he worked with referred to him as an “idiot savant”. It’s hard to get a bead on the man, even with everything the writer has ferreted out from all possible sources. It was the style with which he interpreted songs that were already popular and well-known, such as Blue Moon Kentucky, as well as to lesser-known hits that came from the Black community, that rocketed him to fame. Presley was not a song writer, he was a performer. So much research, so many interviews, so much data has been crammed into an easy-flowing, readable narrative that he makes it look almost easy. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and garnered other awards and praise as well. Even if Elvis’s work has served as background music that you’ve never listened to very much, a review is in order to understand any of the tumult that his work created. It is hard to understand much of what Guralnick writes about unless you can see the body language in the performance. Whether or not you are an Elvis fan, this biography is best read with internet access to his music, and better still with access to film footage of him performing (and it does exist). Urn:oclc:30073531 Republisher_date 20120228223501 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120227192424 Scanner belong to the generation that came about a decade after Elvis was king, and so for a lot of years I tended to avoid his music. OL18448054W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.73 Pages 590 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0349106517 Urn:lcp:lasttraintomemph00gura:epub:3a6b2da7-1b79-4784-8b59-4a69f0108e01 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier lasttraintomemph00gura Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3hx2dn38 Isbn 0316332208 Lccn 94010763 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary OL1086806M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:05:39 Bookplateleaf 0006 Camera Canon 5D City Boston u.a.

Last train to memphis review