Last Train to Memphis Quotes

“Elvis was the purest of postwar products, the commodity that had been missing from the shelves in an expanding marketplace of leisure time and disposable cash.”
― Peter Guralnick, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley

“pure plasticity in an informational age that required a protean hero.”
― Peter Guralnick, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley

“That was Elvis’ mark—he conveyed his spirituality without being able, or needing, to express it. And all these adults with their more complicated lives and dreams and passions and hopes looked for themselves in his simplicity.”
― Peter Guralnick, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley

“and, in place of the body movements, wiggling his little finger lasciviously in a move that sent his audience into paroxysms of ecstasy.”
― Peter Guralnick, Last Train to Memphis (Enhanced Edition): The Rise of Elvis Presley