Last Train to Memphis

Unrivalled... Elvis steps from the pages. You can feel him breathe. This book cancels out all others * Bob Dylan *
A wonderful book... Guralnick gives us an Elvis of real flesh and blood... the richest and most detailed portrait of Presley we have ever had * Sunday Telegraph *
Wonderful... Guralnick deserves to live in Graceland * Roddy Doyle *
The adjective 'definitive' seems almost inadequate * Daily Telegraph *
A triumph of biographical art... profound and moving... Even the minor revelations are positively spellbinding... Guralnick's narrative is rendered with an intimate, restrained intensity eerily reminiscent of the plaintive tone of Presley's ballads, that tremulous yearning of America itself * New York Times Book Review *
Soars above all other books-for-bucks accounts of Elvis... Excellent * Guardian *
The writer's decades of research leap off the page. A classic * Time Out *
The first definitive work on Presley's life * Irish Times *
Altogether splendid... It is the particular and spectacular achievement of Last Train to Memphis that it holds both the making of the history and the beginning of the myth in firm, simple and compassionate focus... Guralnick paints this world with perspective, respect and great decency; it is one of the book's triumphs * Time *
Guralnick takes a sensible and sensitive approach, tracing the roots of an American dream... Guralnick perfectly captures Elvis's mixture of naivety and shrewdness... A serious, musically literate and historically attuned biography. An American epic that belongs on every bookshelf * Kirkus *
It's hard to reclaim Elvis from the weight of history and slander, but Guralnick does it beautifully... [He] tells this 20th century myth with a fine regard for his subject's humanity * Mojo *
A wonderful book...Guralnick gives us an Elvis of real flesh and blood...the richest and most detailed protrait of Presely we have ever had. * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
Unrivalled...Elvis steps out of these pages, you can feel him breathe, this book cancels out all others - BOB DYLAN * Wonderful…Guralnick deserves to live in Graceland - RODDY DOYLE *
Last Train to Memphis is the first part of Peter Gurlanick's epic two-volume life of rock 'n * roll's founding father--and when no less an authority than Bob Dylan writes that "this book cancels out all others", you know Guralnick must be doing something right. Exhaustive and thorough, though always written from a sympathetic standpoint, this first *
Guralnick is a scrupulous biographer, now established as the definitive chronicler of the strange life and turbulent times of Elvis Presley; better still, his enthusiasm for Elvi s' music shines through on every page of the text. And in the end, after all * Patrick Humphries, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW *