Uncut Legends: Elvis

Elvis is, quite simply, Number One. To ram the point home, and celebrate his 70th birthday, he scored his 19th UK Number One with the scintillating 'Jailhouse Rock'. A week later he had the landmark 1,000th UK Number One with 'One Night'.

Without Elvis, rock 'n' roll would have been a footnote in American history. The Beatles, Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Bowie and all the rest would simply not have existed without him kicking in the doors of a repressed '50s.

Uncut Legends: Elvis is the full amazing story of how a bizarrely dressed 19 year-old walked into a small studio and changed music forever. With a forward by Bono, this is the definitive story of the legend. It's packed with incisive writing and some of the greatest images of Elvis.

The issue includes Elvis' 20 Greatest Songs as chosen by Uncut Legends esteemed panel including Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant, Franz Ferdinand lead singer Alex Kapranos, Alice Cooper, Libertine Carl Barat, Alan McGee and lead singer of Garbage, Shirley Manson.

It includes the previously untold story of how one man fought to have the Sun Sessions released and three extraordinary extensive in-depth interviews from 1950s' NME and Melody Maker, reprinted for the very first time

Uncut Legends: Elvis tells the full amazing story of the greatest musical icon of the 20th century.

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