Being Elvis: A Lonely Life
Written by Ray Connolly
Narrated by Jonathan Yen
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
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.
Ray Connolly
Born in 1940, Ray Connolly was brought up in Lancashire and attended the London School of Economics, where he read social anthropology. As a journalist, he has written for the London Evening Standard, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and The Observer. Much of his journalism about the Beatles over 40 years has been compiled into his book The Ray Connolly Beatles Archive. His non-fiction includes Being Elvis: A Lonely Life and Being John Lennon: A Restless Life. His novels include Sunday Morning, Shadows on a Wall and Love out of Season, while for cinema he wrote the original screenplays That'll Be The Day and Stardust, and for television the series Lytton's Diary and Perfect Scoundrels. He wrote and directed the TV documentary James Dean: The First American Teenager, and has written plays for radio, short stories and the novella Sorry Boys, You Failed the Audition. He is married and lives in London.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How sad his life was very lonely a country boy
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Listening to this soon after reading Guralnick’s two volume masterpiece of a biography, it’s difficult not to wonder how this ever passed an originality screening.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sad story of an outstanding talent and big hearted Man who seemed lost and lonely at the end.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As good an Elvis biography as exists with possible exception of Peter Guralnick's 2 volume opus.