![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "It was just his thing." It took many forms. "Elvis got a crush on whoever was handy," said country star June Carter. Instead, he constantly pursued women and juggled girlfriends. Presley's fame and vanity forbade the mature adult relationship. "Elvis loved women," says one of the many voices here. Her focus on Presley's relationships with women takes us on a long and often fascinating journey from the first and greatest love of his life - his mother, Gladys - through the "good girls" he wooed, the "road girls" he took to the back seat of his Cadillac, through the movie stars, the teenager he found in Germany and moulded, married, then ignored (Priscilla Beaulieu), the soulmate he found too late (the dazzling Ann-Margret), the starlets, the flight attendants, the burlesque stars and the Las Vegas hostesses all the way to the end - where a 21-year-old bank teller dumps him and an alleged gold-digging fiancée sleeps in his tomb-like Graceland bedroom as he dies. This is a lengthy, scholarly work by Nashville author/journalist Alanna Nash, who has written widely on Elvis. This is no cheesy photo book showing big-haired women staring adoringly at the handsome star. ![]()
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