Uncle Vester’s Nephew
Graham Coster, 27 February 1992
Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession
by Greil Marcus.
Viking, 256 pp., £17.99, February 1992,0 670 83846 2 Show More
by Greil Marcus.
Viking, 256 pp., £17.99, February 1992,
Rythm Oil: A Journey through the Music of the American South
by Stanley Booth.
Cape, 254 pp., £16.99, October 1991,0 224 02779 4 Show More
by Stanley Booth.
Cape, 254 pp., £16.99, October 1991,
“... you accord him the ultimate homage, and become an Elvis impersonator, remaking yourself as the King right down to the Queen Bess high collars and the heel-shaped sideburns the size of Italy; or else your favourite Elvis story will be the one in Albert Goldman’s biography, of how he nearly drowned in a bowl of minestrone soup – so bombed out one day on ... ”