If anything the book is even better researched and more detailed than the first instalment – weighing in at over six hundred pages, supplemented by detailed notes and explanations, Careless Love almost tells the story in real time. The follow-up to the extraordinary “Last Train To Memphis”, Peter Guralnick’s latest book documents Elvis’ life from his Army days to his death in a Gracelands bathroom. Careless Love explains how Elvis got there. With the exception of U2’s embarrassing fandom no modern bands list Elvis as an influence and, for most people under thirty, Elvis will forever be the pathetic figure stalking the stages of Vegas. I was five years old when Elvis died and, like most of my generation, my knowledge of Elvis is derived largely from muck-raking biographies, shockingly bad films, sightings documented in supermarket tabloids and documentaries about brain-damaged Elvis impersonators.
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