A review by orangefan65
Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick

4.0

Well-written and very detailed history of the years 1961-1977 of Elvis Presley's life. With all the acclaim over his music and the ever-increasing obsessive and eccentric behavior, the controversy over his death that raged for years is not surprising. But, this quote from the book should suffice: "All one has to do is look at Elvis' life, the accelerating dependence on medications available to him in almost unimaginable quantities, the willing enlistment of doctors who seemed never to give a thought to the dangers or likely consequences of what they were prescribing, and the incontrovertible evidence of the medical problems stemming primarily from the use of drugs that Elvis experienced over his last four years, to understand the causes of his death." A sobering, frustrating, tragic tale.