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( There was one thing that was not manageable, though, not even with all Parker's Snopesian smarts. Elvis' reckoning with history was beyond anyone's reach, including, at the last, his very own. He died bloated with his own excess and everyone else's expectations. He did not invent rock...
Elvis sold his soul many times over -- nightly, in Vegas dates; routinely, in all those musicals filmed in Hollywood as if they were popped out of a microwave -- but he never sold out. He probably sang My Way in his later years as often as he sang Heartbreak Hotel, but...
It is impossible to know the exact nature of that debt, of course, but its depth can be felt in all his best music. The joy, the brazen melodrama, the low tragedy and the raunch all range free on the two greatest hits packages. The Sun Sessions, first released in...
The material on The Memphis Record was meant to catch him up with history, and he hit pay dirt. In the Ghetto gave him his first Top Ten hit in four years; the second single from those sessions, Suspicious Minds, was his first No. 1 single since 1962. Gregg Geller...
The Memphis Record is full of triumph and dread. It is saturated with Presley's power and baptized with his loneliness. "He tried not to show it," Phillips recalled, "but he felt so inferior. Presley probably innately was the most introverted person that ((ever)) came into that studio. He didn...