Press Reviews

• Bob Dylan

  Unrivalled... Elvis steps from the pages. You can feel him breathe. This book cancels out all others

• Sunday Telegraph

  A wonderful book... Guralnick gives us an Elvis of real flesh and blood... the richest and most detailed portrait of Presley we have ever had

• Roddy Doyle

  Wonderful... Guralnick deserves to live in Graceland

• New York Times Book Review

  A triumph of biographical art... profound and moving... Even the minor revelations are positively spellbinding... Guralnick's narrative is rendered with an intimate, restrained intensity eerily reminiscent of the plaintive tone of Presley's ballads, that tremulous yearning of America itself

• Time

  Altogether splendid... It is the particular and spectacular achievement of Last Train to Memphis that it holds both the making of the history and the beginning of the myth in firm, simple and compassionate focus... Guralnick paints this world with perspective, respect and great decency; it is one of the book's triumphs

• Kirkus

  Guralnick takes a sensible and sensitive approach, tracing the roots of an American dream... Guralnick perfectly captures Elvis's mixture of naivety and shrewdness... A serious, musically literate and historically attuned biography. An American epic that belongs on every bookshelf

• Irish Times

  The first definitive work on Presley's life

• Guardian

  Soars above all other books-for-bucks accounts of Elvis... Excellent

• Daily Telegraph

  The adjective 'definitive' seems almost inadequate

• Time Out

  The writer's decades of research leap off the page. A classic

• Mojo

  It's hard to reclaim Elvis from the weight of history and slander, but Guralnick does it beautifully... [He] tells this 20th century myth with a fine regard for his subject's humanity