Elvis in Vegas : how the king reinveted the Las Vegas show
(Playaway)

Title from container.

"HD."

"Light."

"Simon & Schuster Audio."

Previously released by Simon & Schuster, Inc., ℗2019.

Release date supplied by publisher.

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.

Playaway.

Read by Gibson Frazier.

"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, mediocre pop songs that no longer made the charts -- and 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," the song he introduced there, gave him his first number one hit in seven years; and Elvis became Vegas' biggest star. Over the next seven years, he performed more than six hundred shows there and sold out every one. Las Vegas was changed, too. By the end of the '60s, Vegas' golden age -- when the Rat Pack led a glittering array of stars who made it the nation's premier live-entertainment center -- was losing its luster. Elvis created a new kind of Vegas show: an over-the-top, rock-concert 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. He opened the door to a new generation of pop/rock artists and brought a new audience to Vegas -- not the traditional well-heeled older gamblers, but a mass audience from Middle America that Vegas depends on for its success to this day."--,Provided by publisher.

Playaways are loaned without batteries or earphones. Patrons borrowing a Playaway will have to insert their own AAA battery for the Playaway to work. Patrons will have to use their own earphones.