

Being Elvis
A Lonely Life
Author: Ray Connolly
Narrator: Jonathan Yen
Unabridged: 14 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 03/21/2017
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Music & Musicians, Arts & Entertainment
Synopsis
In Being Elvis, veteran rock journalist Ray Connolly takes a fresh look at the career of the world's most loved singer, placing him, forty years after his death, not exhaustively in the garish neon lights of Las Vegas but back in his mid-twentieth-century, distinctly southern world. For new and seasoned fans alike, Connolly, who interviewed Elvis in 1969, re-creates a man who sprang from poverty in Tupelo, Mississippi, to unprecedented overnight fame, eclipsing Frank Sinatra and then inspiring the Beatles along the way. The creator of an American sound that resonates today, Elvis remains frozen in time, an enduring American icon who could capture an inner emotion, perhaps of eternal yearning, to which all of us can still relate.