The Illustrated Elvis - Abridged Edition

Grosset and Dunlap, Inc. Publishers - A Tempo Star Book, 1977. First Tempo Star Edition . Mass Market. Very Good. Pages are not numbered. This book was first published in the United States in 1976 by Grosset & Dunlap, Inc. This Tempo Star edition released in 1977 and is a special picture selection with black and white photographs on almost all pages. Put on your blue suede shoes, baby, and come dreaming. Here is Elvis Presley, illustrated as child, Southern boy, loner, bully, madman, hero, crooner, lover, dreamer, genius and king. In startling photographs from. all periods of his life, here is the story of the man who was the quintessence of American popular music and its greatest legend. Before Dylan, Lennon, and Jagger, Elvis Presley became the enfant: terrible of pop music. In a couple of short months, he exploded from his poor childhood in Memphis to rescue an entire generation from post-war boredom. This remarkable pictorial biography by W. A. Harbinson traces Elvis' career from his "white trash" childhood to the top, and follows him on through his years in show business and films to his death at 42. Flashy, magnetic, and outrageous as a performer, he was secluded and ambiguous in his private life. Anyway you look at it, there was no one like Elvis. From Memphis to myth.