Tracing the King's Path to Greatness NON-FICTION in Search of Elvis by Charlie Connelly (Little, Brown, Pounds 12.99)
Ritchie, Harry, The Evening Standard (London, England)
Tracing the King's path to greatness WHEN Elvis died in 1977, there were only 185 Elvis impersonators in the world. In 2005, there were 186,000. At this rate, by 2050, one in four people in the world will be an Elvis impersonator.
Thirty years after his death, Elvis still earns Pounds 25million a year in royalties. And the cult of Elvis continues to thrive, with often near-religious intensity, all over the world.
Charlie Connelly sets off to explore the be-sequined, lip- curling, hip-wiggling world ruled by the King, travelling to outposts of Elvism from Tashkent to Porthcawl, and making his own pilgrimages to Graceland and other sites held sacred by …
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Article title: Tracing the King's Path to Greatness NON-FICTION in Search of Elvis by Charlie Connelly (Little, Brown, Pounds 12.99).
Contributors: Ritchie, Harry - Author.
Newspaper title: The Evening Standard (London, England).
Publication date: January 3, 2007.
Page number: 29.
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