Shapeshifter
Ian Penman: Elvis looks for meaning, 25 September 2014
Elvis Has Left the Building: The Day the King Died
by Dylan Jones.
Duckworth, 307 pp., £16.99, July 2014,978 0 7156 4856 8 Show More
by Dylan Jones.
Duckworth, 307 pp., £16.99, July 2014,
Elvis Presley: A Southern Life
by Joel Williamson.
Oxford, 384 pp., £25, November 2014,978 0 19 986317 4 Show More
by Joel Williamson.
Oxford, 384 pp., £25, November 2014,
“... When Southern boy Elvis first went north to do some fancy New York TV, the usually quite hep Steve Allen miscalculated badly and showcased him in a dreary, patronising skit in which Elvis has to deliver his song to an actual slobbery hound dog. You can feel the Northern condescension and snobbery thick like molasses in the studio air. For his second TV ... ”