English rocker Bono celebrated Elvis Presley's birth 60th aniversary with a poem “Elvis: American David”. That litany was showing a lot of person and celebrity faces, this Elvis known by his nearest friends and the one that used to build to have fun with his gang. And afterwords, of course, there was the megastar, the myth, that Elvis Presley turned into a god because a vast devotion from his audience, the one of extravagant suits and the one of apotheosic musical arrangements. There are too much Elvis so that it becomes difficult to tell about the live of that south guy, shy and simple, who made true his dream of going out from the poverty singing to God and carrying his family, friends, and all those he could help in the way with him.

John Lennon would say that before Elvis there was nothing. And that's true. Till Elvis didn't jump into the radio and TV, popular music wasn't so popular, and of course, it wasn't an instrument to represent youth feelings. Thirty years after his death, the true Elvis artistic valor is getting lost among so many anecdotes in his history. Meanwhile people can talk about his white suits and his exagerated diet, who cares the sad depth almost painful with he used to sing his song? Or who cares the drama and sadness that so many LP and directs recordings had? This book is trying to be a filter to these big amount of Elvis versions, with some of this passion necesary to understand this figure that lived, in a big part of his life, trying to make happy all people aroung him, if it was posible, with a song.

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