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Zoglin, Richard.
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Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977.
Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Popular music -- Nevada -- Las Vegas -- History and criticism.
Las Vegas (Nev.) -- History.
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Zoglin, Richard.
Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977.
Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Popular music -- Nevada -- Las Vegas -- History and criticism.
Las Vegas (Nev.) -- History.
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Elvis in
Vegas
: how the king reinvented the
Las
Vegas
show / Richard Zoglin.
by
Zoglin, Richard.
Simon & Schuster, 2019.
Call #:
781.66092 P934z
Subjects
Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977.
Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977
--
Criticism
and interpretation.
Popular
music
--
Nevada
--
Las
Vegas
--
History
and
criticism
.
Las
Vegas
(Nev.)
--
History
.
ISBN:
9781501151194 (hc.)
Edition:
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Description:
v, 296 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Vegas
Meets Elvis
--
How
Vegas
Happened
--
The Cool Guys
--
The Entertainment Capital
--
Changes (Elvis Rising)
--
Comeback (Elvis Reborn)
--
: Aftermath (Elvis Forever)
Summary:
The story of how
Las
Vegas
saved Elvis and Elvis saved
Las
Vegas
in the greatest musical comeback of all time. The conventional wisdom is that
Las
Vegas
is what destroyed Elvis Presley, launching him on a downward spiral of drugs, boredom, erratic stage behavior, and eventually his fatal overdose. But in Elvis in
Vegas
, Richard Zoglin takes an alternate view, arguing that
Vegas
is where the King of Rock and Roll resurrected his career, reinvented himself as a performer, and created the most exciting show in
Vegas
history
. Elvis's 1969 opening night in
Vegas
was his first time back on a live stage in more than eight years. His career had gone sour--bad movies, and mediocre pop songs that no longer made the charts. He'd been dismissed by most critics as over the hill. But in
Vegas
he played the biggest showroom in the biggest hotel in the city, drawing more people for his four-week engagement than any other show in
Vegas
history
. His performance got rave reviews, "Suspicious Minds" gave him his first number-one hit in seven years, and Elvis became
Vegas
's biggest star. Over the next seven years, he performed more than 600 shows there, and sold out every one.
Las
Vegas
was changed too. The intimate night-club-style shows of the Rat Pack, who made
Vegas
the nation's premier live-entertainment center in the 1950s and '60s, catered largely to well-heeled older gamblers. Elvis brought a new kind of experience: an over-the-top, rock-concert-like extravaganza. He set a new bar for
Vegas
performers, with the biggest salary, the biggest musical production, and the biggest promotion campaign the city had ever seen. In doing so, he opened the door to a new generation of pop/rock performers, and brought a new audience to Vegas--a mass audience from Middle America that
Vegas
depends on for its success to this day.--From the publisher.
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