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...Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick (Little, Brown). The author, a music critic, follows the self-created rock hero as he is borne to platinum paradise on a great celebrity updraft -- this despite Miss Marmann, his eighth-grade music teacher, who told him he couldn't sing worth a lick and gave him a C. Guralnick writes evocatively and sympathetically of Presley's first wild fame -- That's All Right, Mama, his first recording, made him a millionaire -- and tracks the star through the shattering death of his mother Gladys and his entry into...
...teacher, a Miss Marmann, told him he couldn't sing. Presley demurred. It was just that she didn't appreciate his style of singing. To prove his point, he showed up in class the next day with his guitar and let loose with his version of Keep Them Cold Icy Fingers Off of Me, a 1947 hit by Fairley Holden and His Six Ice Cold Papas. Miss Marmann agreed with him on one point: she did not appreciate his style of singing...
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