Elvis, We Love You Tender

by Martin Torgoff, Billy Stanley, Rick Stanley

Hardcover 1980 385p.9.25x6.25x1.50 COVER PICTURE IS DIFFERENT. ELVIS PRESLEY - MAN WHO MADE MILLIONS PEOPLE HAPPY. SINGER WITH EXTRAORDINARY TALENT

Genres: Biography, Music, Nonfiction

395 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

For more than three decades, Martin Torgoff has been at the forefront of major media trends and cultural currents, documenting and telling the story of America through the evolution of its popular culture. An award-winning journalist, author of prize-winning and best-selling books, documentary filmmaker and Emmy-nominated television writer, director and producer of shows that have been seen by millions, his work has encompassed music, art, film, theater, literature, politics, history, biography, sexuality, sports, sociology, and celebrity culture. As the New Yorker put it, “Martin Torgoff has been writing books and making films about sex, drugs and rock and roll for thirty years.”

Although an expert on the cultural landscape of the baby boom era, Torgoff’s interests range far and wide. His film Planet Rock: The Story of Hip Hop and the Crack Generation, produced for VH1, was nominated for Emmys in Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming and Outstanding Achievement in a Craft: Writing. In 2004, he published a landmark work about how illicit drugs have shaped American popular culture, Can’t Find My Way Home: America In the Great Stoned Age, 1945 - 2000 (Simon & Schuster), then turned the book into The Drug Years, an award-winning multi-part documentary series in 2006 that became one of the most successful in the history of VH1. This and another series on the sexual revolution called Sex—The Revolution, a co-production of VH1 and Sundance in which Torgoff also appeared as a principal commentator, established him as a recognized television personality and authority on music and American pop culture, after which he was invited to lecture at Brown University and other colleges.

Reviews

[Brit · Rating 3 out of 5]

am i the only one that thinks that dee presley is just out for elvis's money.

[Alamgir Khan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this book near enough the time it was released. Although the Stanleys not only had a ringside view of Elvis' life from the 1960s to the last days, but actively played a role in it, this is by no means the best book about Elvis. Yes, inevitably there are insights about Elvis, however, the book is fairly mundane. And despite their relatively privileged position, they don't seem to be the best keepers of the flame. There are many better books if you are interested in reading about Elvis. Much of this book reads like an episode of Dallas and you are given the impression that this book is more about setting out perceived grievances and settling old scores. I also don't recall much of interest being said about Elvis the performing artist. As often is the case, with many people just wishing to cash in on his fame, Elvis deserves better. Thankfully, authors like Jerry Hopkins and Peter Guralnick have produced much more worthy biographies of Elvis.

[Vincenzo Ridente · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got this book from the library once to read it I don't think it's one of the better bios but I still would recommend it as Dee Presley and the Stanley brothers share there memories about Elvis it's good if you want to know more about Elvis that you never knew before

[Lola Henshall · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a good book with good detail but it was very wordy and lots of details you need to keep concerntrated on or else you'll end up just being confused had to restart chapters because its very information packed

[Simone Hamilton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a great read!!! Built on my understanding of his life. Loved this book

[Noel · Rating 3 out of 5]

moms old book by his step mom and brothers i did enjoy it and learnt a lot about elvis a bit preachy at times but i did enjoy it

[Jamie]

I read this book when I was in school.I was a teenager at the time.I was just starting to learn the truths and non-truths about him.The Stanley's only wanted what they could get out of him.No one would know anything about them just like Priscilla if Elvis had not been in their lives they would still be a nobody.