Elvis in Vegas : how the King reinvented the Las Vegas show
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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019.
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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v, 296 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (black and white) ; 23 cm
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Oliver La Farge - Adult
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Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-279), discography, and index.
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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.
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1969. Elvis's career had gone sour: bad movies, and mediocre pop songs that no longer made the charts. 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. Over the next seven years he performed more than 600 shows there, and sold out every one. Las Vegas was changed too, from the intimate night-club-style shows of the Rat Pack to Elvis's over-the-top, rock-concert-like extravaganzas. Zoglin shows how Elvis brought a new generation of performers-- and a new audience-- to Vegas. -- adapted from jacket

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