![]() ![]() In his last days, the King complained, “I’m so tired of being Elvis Presley” as Connolly writes, death was the only escape available to the world’s first rock icon. Instead, Connolly shoots a close-up of a talented mama’s boy elevated and then broken by the demographic upheaval that transformed pop culture. And though its always crowded you can still find some room for broken hearted lovers to cry there in the gloom and be so lonely. This speculative leap provides both the strength and weakness of the account: while readers will pity the overwhelmed singer, the world seen through his eyes is quite blurry, and few of even his closest intimates come into focus. ![]() Though far from uncritical, Connolly presents his material from what he depicts as Elvis’s perspective, offering excuses and justifications for bad behavior, bad music, and bad films. Gliding over this heavily mined terrain with aplomb, Connolly pays particular attention to Elvis’s psychological makeup, in particular his underlying insecurity, a weakness magnified by the singer’s gluttonous consumption of narcotics, amphetamines, and barbituates, food, and the loss of his beloved mother. Four decades after Elvis’s death, Connolly passes the familiar signposts: born in poverty with a stillborn twin, Sun Studios magic, the sinister “Colonel” Tom Parker, the army stint, romance with 14-year-old Priscilla Bealieu, the Vegas years, drug dependence and unhinged behavior. “Because I think when you’re honest with yourself, you’re able to be honest with others.In this sympathetic portrayal of Elvis Presley, English writer and journalist Connolly tells the much-recounted saga of a hillbilly from Tupelo, Miss., who became the first rock-and-roll superstar. The singer told host Glennon Doyle, 47, on the ‘We Can Do Hard Things’ podcast about how she felt better after her marriage split: “I can say that after (the divorce) I’m a far better mother. Kelly and Brandon did not reach a settlement until two years after she filed for divorce. She said the two children she had with Brandon, nine-year-old girl River and son Remington, seven, backed her decision to move to the Big Apple. What are our thoughts about possibly moving this to New York?’” Im So Lonesome I Could Cry by B J Thomas Strumming is nice and steady: down, down, up, down, up G Bm Em D Did you hear that lonesome whippoorwill G Bm Em D He sounds too blue to fly C Cm G Em. “I literally called one of the (NBC) heads and was like, ‘Listen, my life has been a dumpster fire and I’m really unhappy in LA and I don’t know if I’ll continue in LA. My ex does not like living in a city like this, but I just never had done it. “I came here and I was like, ‘Why have I never lived here?’ I know why. I came (to New York) and this is what won me over. Texan Kelly, whose talk show move was announced in May by NBC, told Andy Cohen, 55, on a SiriusXM Town Hall: “We go nowhere in LA. Lonely as in, like, you miss your family, you miss just having any family, or that kind of relationship.” Not as in, like, ‘I need a boyfriend’ kind of thing. It was just me and my kids all the way on that coast. She added she felt like LA was “never her thing” in the two decades she has lived in the city, and said: “I never wanted to live there in the first place. ![]() “Also it just proved I’ve never really liked living in LA.” ![]() A lot of us didn’t make it relationship-wise. Referencing her divorce, she said on the ‘Today’ show: “I think Covid pointed out a lot of things. The ‘A Moment Like This’ singer, 41, filed for divorce from her 46-year-old former partner in June 2020 after nearly seven years of marriage, which sparked a bitter split battle, and Kelly says she is now happy to be moving her self-titled talk show to New York after finding life in Los Angeles isolating following the break-up, especially during the pandemic. Kelly Clarkson was “lonely” after her divorce from Brandon Blackstock. Kelly Clarkson was ‘lonely’ after her divorce from Brandon Blackstock ![]()
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