The Comeback
Elvis and the Story of the 68 Special
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Omnibus Press
Publishing:23rd Apr '26
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 23rd April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
'An irresistible biography' Evening Standard
It remains the greatest comeback in music history. The Lazarus-like saga of Elvis Presley’s fall and rise, from Army discharge through Sixties Hollywood hell to divine black-leather resurrection.
As 1968 dawns, the once ‘King’ of rock’n’roll faces cultural oblivion, a fading star lost in a 24/7 delirium of women, pills and holy mumbo-jumbo, isolated from an America unravelling in its own chaos of war, racism, riots and assassinations. Until, against all odds, his world and theirs collide in the performance of his life.
First published four years before Baz Luhrmann’s dramatisation of events in the Oscar-nominated 2022 biopic Elvis, Simon Goddard’s The Comeback is no less a vividly cinematic, pelvic-thrusting blockbuster. This Remastered edition includes a foreword from musician and journalist Bob Stanley.
'A fascinating exploration ... Goddard certainly has form as a music biographer, but this audacious and pacey study of The King goes further. Timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the event in question, it broaches exciting new ground.' The National
'This fine book more than justifies its existence... Goddard not only knows his Elvis but deftly weaves in the cultural background of the era.' MOJO
'Swerves rock-biog worthiness in favour of exhilarating novelistic daring - a hot and heavy dream of a book' Q Magazine
ISBN: 9781917274029
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368 pages