T.Rex: Electric Warrior
Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, October 2001
REMEMBER LITTLE Richard's immortal comment on the tragic trajectory of Elvis Presley? That wonderful epigram "he got what he wanted, but he lost what he had" could have served as a summary of Peter Guralnick's superb two-volume Elvis biography: Book One rehearsing how he got what he wanted, and Book Two how he lost what he had.
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