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The book covers his childhood and early career, his army years, his rise to superstardom, the Hollywood years (each film is explored in detail), the Las Vegas years, his many women and the industry that has sprung up around his image. A complete discography, chronology and timeline round out this awe-inspiring overview of the most enduring entertainer of our lifetime. Every true Elvis fan will treasure this inspiring tribute. From his beginnings in a shotgun shack in Tupelo, Mississippi, to his...

America's most beloved columnist shares 40 years of advice through letters to her only child, published here for the first time. In this witty, wise, and intensely personal collection of letters to her daughter Margo, Ann Landers delivers her own unintentional memoir.

A GUARDIAN AND CHOICE BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A walk on the wild side with the alt-rock pioneer' GQ 'DeCurtis is well placed to trace Reed's five-decade career, drawing on insider knowledge but skilfully balancing it with detailed research and fascinating interviews' Mojo Magazine As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground and a renowned solo artist, Lou Reed invented alternative rock. His music, at once the height of sanctity and perversity, transcended a genre, speaking to millions...

  Before Pearl Harbor, before polio and his entry into politics, FDR was a handsome, pampered, but strong-willed youth, the center of a rarefied world.  In Before the Trumpet, the award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward transports the reader to that world—Hyde Park on the Hudson and Campobello Island, Groton and Harvard and the Continent—to recreate as never before the formative years of the man who would become the 20th century’s greatest president. Here, drawn from thousands of original docum...

As the government's enterprise tsar, Alan Sugar is now Lord Sugar, roaming the corridors of power. His is a very British success story: Sugar grew up in an East End council flat and boiled beetroots for the local greengrocer. As he built his business empire, he became Sir Alan Sugar - an entrepreneurial icon, fixture on the Sunday Times Rich List and television star on the much-loved BBC show The Apprentice. How did this remarkable man go from selling car aerials out of the back of a second-ha...

Global hit maker Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical spotlights the world of Stephen Ward - the social cavalier who knew everyone who mattered - and his enigmatic role in the great political scandal of the 20th Century. Yet few truly know the rakish charmer who was the catalytic character of the Profumo affair. A talented osteopath and artist, Stephen Ward treated, sketched and seduced the great and often not-so-good of the post-war years. He healed Churchill and Gandhi, Frank Sinatra and Elizabet...

Young, good-looking, famous and rich, there is no better-known celebrity couple than Posh and Becks. In this biography, Andrew Morton reveals the truth behind the headlines. He examines Victoria's relationship with the other Spice Girls and David's relationship with Manchester United. Through tell-all interviews with those who inhabit the Beckhams' circle, the author unfolds a story of two young people struggling to lead ordinary lives and obsessed with guarding their privacy. Yet, he argues, th...