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Ser Elvis: Una vida solitaria (Libros Singulares (LS))
Elvis Presley es una figura de tallamundial de la cultura popular, un artista cuyo talento y fama sólo fueron igualados por sus excesos y su trágico final. Con su deslumbrante voz, este ícono del siglo XX incorporó influencias del rhythm and blues y del folk de raíces americanaspara crear un tipo de música completamente nuevo y una nueva manera de expresarla sensibilidad masculina.
En Ser Elvis. Una vida solitaria, el veterano periodista de rock Ray Connolly ofrece una revisión de la carrera del cantante más famosode la música popular, ubicándolo no sólo bajo las chillonas luces de neón de Las Vegas, donde concluyó su carrera, sino también en el contexto del sur de Estados Unidos, en los barrios pobres donde Elvis se creció y formómusicalmente asintiendo a conciertos clandestinos de blues, frecuentando iglesiasdonde escuchaba góspel y aprendiendo a tocar la guitarra entre melodías de country y hillbilly.
A través de entrevistas a músicos que lo conocieron personalmente, como John Lennon, Bob Dylan, B. B. King, Sam Phillips y Roy Orbison, entre muchos otros, Ray Connolly logra uno de los retratos más matizados y maduros escritos hasta el presente del fenómeno cultural que fue Elvis Presley.
En Ser Elvis. Una vida solitaria, el veterano periodista de rock Ray Connolly ofrece una revisión de la carrera del cantante más famosode la música popular, ubicándolo no sólo bajo las chillonas luces de neón de Las Vegas, donde concluyó su carrera, sino también en el contexto del sur de Estados Unidos, en los barrios pobres donde Elvis se creció y formómusicalmente asintiendo a conciertos clandestinos de blues, frecuentando iglesiasdonde escuchaba góspel y aprendiendo a tocar la guitarra entre melodías de country y hillbilly.
A través de entrevistas a músicos que lo conocieron personalmente, como John Lennon, Bob Dylan, B. B. King, Sam Phillips y Roy Orbison, entre muchos otros, Ray Connolly logra uno de los retratos más matizados y maduros escritos hasta el presente del fenómeno cultural que fue Elvis Presley.
517 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 9, 2021
About the author
Ray Connolly
61 books44 followersRay Connolly grew up in Lancashire, England. After graduating from the London School of Economics he began a career in journalism, and wrote a weekly interview column for the London Evening Standard, concentrating mainly on popular culture and music. Since then he has written for the Sunday Times, The Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Observer and the Daily Mail. Many of his interviews with members of the Beatles have been republished in his eBook, The Ray Connolly Beatles Archive.
His first novel, A Girl Who Came To Stay, was published in 1973. Several other novels followed, including Newsdeath, Sunday Morning, Shadows On A Wall and Kill For Love.
Working with producer David Puttnam he wrote the original screenplays for the films That’ll Be the Day and Stardust, and wrote and directed the feature length documentary James Dean: The First American Teenager.
He has also written for television, most notably the series Lytton’s Diary and Perfect Scoundrels, and the TV films Forever Young and Defrosting The Fridge, and worked with Sir George Martin on the documentary trilogy about music The Rhythm of Life.
For BBC radio he wrote Lost Fortnight, about Raymond Chandler in Hollywood, and Unimaginable, which concerned the twenty four hours around the death of John Lennon, whom he was due to see on the day the former Beatle was murdered.
In 2010 he adapted one strand of his novel Love Out Of Season as the radio play God Bless Our Love, while his novella about the Beatles, Sorry, Boys, You Failed The Audition, will be broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 2013.
In 2011 he published his Christmas short story Let Nothing You Dismay as an eBook on Amazon. Others will soon follow.
Currently working on a screenplay for a movie about Dusty Springfield, he is married and lives in London.
His first novel, A Girl Who Came To Stay, was published in 1973. Several other novels followed, including Newsdeath, Sunday Morning, Shadows On A Wall and Kill For Love.
Working with producer David Puttnam he wrote the original screenplays for the films That’ll Be the Day and Stardust, and wrote and directed the feature length documentary James Dean: The First American Teenager.
He has also written for television, most notably the series Lytton’s Diary and Perfect Scoundrels, and the TV films Forever Young and Defrosting The Fridge, and worked with Sir George Martin on the documentary trilogy about music The Rhythm of Life.
For BBC radio he wrote Lost Fortnight, about Raymond Chandler in Hollywood, and Unimaginable, which concerned the twenty four hours around the death of John Lennon, whom he was due to see on the day the former Beatle was murdered.
In 2010 he adapted one strand of his novel Love Out Of Season as the radio play God Bless Our Love, while his novella about the Beatles, Sorry, Boys, You Failed The Audition, will be broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 2013.
In 2011 he published his Christmas short story Let Nothing You Dismay as an eBook on Amazon. Others will soon follow.
Currently working on a screenplay for a movie about Dusty Springfield, he is married and lives in London.
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February 26, 2023
La historia, de un gran talento. Bien contada narrativa ligera.
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