Elvis Presley - Elvis Has Left the Building: The Day the King Died

Elvis Presley - Elvis Has Left the Building: The
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Hardcover Book Details

  • 320 Pages, Hardcover
  • Released: August 14, 2014
  • Originally Released: 2014
  • Publisher: The Overlook Press

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Nearly forty years after his death, rock’s ultimate legend and prototype just won’t go away and his influence and legacy are to be found not just in music today, but the world over.

Elvis Presley has permeated the modern world in ways that are bizarre and inexplicable: a pop icon while he was alive, he has become almost a religious icon in death, a modern-day martyr crucified on the wheel of drugs, celebrity culture, junk food and sex. In Elvis Has Left the Building, Dylan Jones takes us back to those heady days around the time of his death and the rise of punk. Evoking the hysteria and devotion of The King’s numerous disciples and imitators, Jones offers a uniquely insightful commentary on Elvis’s life, times and outrageous demise.

Recounting how Elvis single-handedly changed the course of popular music and culture, Jones delves deep into the cult of The King and reveals the universal importance of what Elvis’s death meant and still means to us today.

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  • ISBN: 9781468309676
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