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Other books include an acclaimed trilogy on american roots music, sweet soul music, lost highway, and feel like going home. This book is, as guralnick himself writes in his opening note, a tragedy. He specializes in the history of early rock and roll and has written on elvis presley, sam phillips, and sam cooke. Hailed as a masterwork by the wall street journal, careless love is the full, true, and mesmerizing story of elvis presley s last two decades, in the longawaited second volume of peter guralnick s masterful twopart biography. Careless love hailed as a masterwork by the wall street journal, careless love is the full, true, and mesmerizing story of elvis presley s last two decades, in the longawaited second volume of peter guralnick s masterful twopart biography. Careless love elvis presley book by peter guralnick. Careless love is the full, true, and mesmerizing story of elvis presleys last two decades, in the longawaited second volume of peter guralnicks masterful. Musically he was a genius, perhaps a savant, and that remained true for over a decade after he had served in the military.
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