Ser Elvis

Elvis Presley is a world-class figure in popular culture, an artist whose talent and fame were only equaled by his excesses and tragic end. With his dazzling voice, this 20th century icon incorporated influences from rhythm and blues and American-rooted "folk" to create a whole new kind of music and a new way of expressing masculine sensibilities. In "Being Elvis. A Lonely Life", veteran rock journalist Ray Connolly offers a career review of the most famous singer in popular music, setting him not only under the garish neon lights of Las Vegas, where his career ended, but also in the context of the southern United States, in the poor neighborhoods where Elvis grew up and formed musically, attending clandestine blues concerts, attending churches where he listened to gospel and learning to play the guitar between melodies of "country" and "hillbilly" . Through interviews with musicians who knew him personally, such as John Lennon, Bob Dylan, BB King, Sam Phillips and Roy Orbison, among many others, Ray Connolly achieves one of the most nuanced and mature portraits written to date of the cultural phenomenon that It was Elvis Presley.