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�Outstanding pop-culture history.� �Newsday The �smart and zippy account� (The Wall Street Journal) of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time. 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�s biggest star. Over the next seven years, he performed more than 600 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. At once �a fascinating history of Vegas as gambling capital, celebrity playground, mob hangout, [and] entertainment Valhalla� (Rolling Stone) and the incredible �tale of how the King got his groove back� (Associated Press), Elvis in Vegas is a classic feel-good story for the ages. (less)

�Outstanding pop-culture history.� �Newsday The �smart and zippy account� (The Wall Street Journal) of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time. Elvis�s 1969 opening night in Vegas (…more)