Last Train to Memphis
Autor Peter Guralnicken Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 1995
În 1954, un tânăr șofer de camion din Memphis intra în studioul Sun Records fără să bănuiască faptul că decizia de a înregistra câteva piese pentru mama sa va fractura istoria culturală a secolului XX. Considerăm că Last Train to Memphis nu este doar o biografie muzicală, ci o reconstituire cinematică a momentului în care America și-a găsit o nouă voce. Peter Guralnick refuză să trateze subiectul ca pe o legendă intangibilă, alegând în schimb să exploreze vulnerabilitatea unui tânăr mânat de o credință aproape mistică în propriul talent. Textul ne poartă prin anii de formare ai lui Elvis Presley, de la sărăcia din Tupelo până la succesul fulminant care a transformat muzica gospel și blues într-un fenomen global. Narativul amintește de Careless Love prin intensitatea cu care reconstituie o epocă, fiind prima parte a unui diptic biografic monumental care reușește să anuleze zgomotul de fond al mitologiei „Regelui”. Guralnick scrie cu o grație rară, integrând sute de mărturii ale celor care l-au cunoscut pe Elvis înainte ca faima să devină o barieră de netrecut. În contextul operei sale, această lucrare rafinează temele explorate în Sweet Soul Music sau Feel Like Going Home, unde autorul a analizat rădăcinile profunde ale muzicii americane. Aici, el aplică aceeași rigoare documentară pentru a explica cum un singur om a putut sintetiza influențe atât de diverse — de la Bing Crosby la artiștii de blues rural. Finalul, marcat de înrolarea în armată și pierderea dureroasă a mamei sale, Gladys, transformă triumful primilor ani într-o poveste profund umană despre maturizare și pierdere.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0316332259
Pagini: 576
Dimensiuni: 233 x 149 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
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Despre autor
Peter Guralnick este considerat unul dintre cei mai importanți cronicari ai muzicii americane. Autor al unor lucrări de referință precum Searching for Robert Johnson și al biografiei definitive a lui Sam Phillips, Guralnick a fost recompensat cu un premiu Grammy pentru notele sale de discografie și a colaborat la documentare regizate de Martin Scorsese. Stilul său se distinge prin rigoarea cercetării și capacitatea de a restitui demnitatea umană figurilor legendare ale culturii populare. Trilogia sa despre rădăcinile muzicii americane rămâne un punct de reper în literatura de specialitate.
Descriere scurtă
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is the first biography to go past that myth and present an Elvis beyond the legend. Based on hundreds of interviews and nearly a decade of research, it traces the evolution not just of the man but of the music and of the culture he left utterly transformed, creating a completely fresh portrait of Elvis and his world.
This volume tracks the first twenty-four years of Elvis' life, covering his childhood, the stunning first recordings at Sun Records ("That's All Right," "Mystery Train"), and the early RCA hits ("Heartbreak Hotel," "Hound Dog," "Don't Be Cruel"). These were the years of his improbable self-invention and unprecedented triumphs, when it seemed that everything that Elvis tried succeeded wildly. There was scarcely a cloud in sight through this period until, in 1958, he was drafted into the army and his mother died shortly thereafter. The book closes on that somber and poignant note.
Last Train to Memphis takes us deep inside Elvis' life, exploring his lifelong passion for music of every sort (from blues and gospel to Bing Crosby and Mario Lanza), his compelling affection for his family, and his intimate relationships with girlfriends, mentors, band members, professional associates, and friends. It shows us the loneliness, the trustfulness, the voracious appetite for experience, and above all the unshakable, almost mystical faith that Elvis had in himself and his music. Drawing frequently on Elvis' own words and on the recollections of those closest to him, the book offers an emotional, complex portrait of young Elvis Presley with a depth and dimension that for the first time allow his extraordinary accomplishments to ring true.
Peter Guralnick has given us a previously unseen world, a rich panoply of people and events that illuminate an achievement, a place, and a time as never revealed before. Written with grace, humor, and affection, Last Train to Memphis has been hailed as the definitive biography of Elvis Presley. It is the first to set aside the myths and focus on Elvis' humanity in a way that has yet to be duplicated.
Descriere
The first volume of Peter Guralnick's critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biographies
'Elvis steps from the pages. You can feel him breathe' BOB DYLAN
'Wonderful' RODDY DOYLE
Last Train to Memphis is arguably the first serious biography that refuses to dwell on the myth of Elvis. Aiming instead to portray in vivid, dramatic terms the life and career of this outstanding artistic and cultural phenomenon, it draws together a plethora of documentary and interview material to create a superbly coherent and plausible narrative.
This is the first of three volumes from music critic and author, Peter Guralnick, and covers Presley's stratospheric rise to stardom up to his departure for Germany in 1958. Last Train to Memphis is undoubtedly the benchmark by which other biographies of Elvis are judged.
'Soars above all other accounts of Elvis' GUARDIAN
'A triumph of biographical art... profound and moving' NEW YORK TIMES
Recenzii
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
Wonderful... Guralnick deserves to live in Graceland
The adjective 'definitive' seems almost inadequate
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
Soars above all other books-for-bucks accounts of Elvis... Excellent
The writer's decades of research leap off the page. A classic
The first definitive work on Presley's life
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
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
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
Unrivalled...Elvis steps out of these pages, you can feel him breathe, this book cancels out all others - BOB DYLAN