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Elvis in Vegas - How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show (Hardcover)
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Elvis in Vegas - How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show (Hardcover)
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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. A classic comeback tale set against the backdrop of
Las Vegas's golden age, Richard Zoglin's Elvis in Vegas is a
feel-good story for the ages.
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