The music of Elvis Aron Presley -- who would have turned 80 on Thursday -- remains as raw, direct and immediate as ever.
"What's there is the warmth, the particularity of communication," says Peter Guralnick, whose two-volume Elvis biography -- "Last Train to Memphis" and "Careless Love" -- remains the definitive chronicle of the singer. "It has to do with that unique talent for communication Elvis had from the very beginning, and that people recognized long before they ever saw him or had an image of him. It was something in his voice that proclaimed it's different."
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