After a decade of self-imposed exile from concert stages, Elvis Presley attempts to restore his musical authority in this 1970 performance documentary. The King had launched his comeback two years earlier with the relatively lean attack of his famed network television appearance, '68 Comeback Special, after being sidelined by his big-screen career and eclipsed by rock's mid-'60s metamorphosis. A job choice he made at the time that now looks even more transitory than it already was feels even more ephemeral than it already did at the time. In Elvis: That's the Way It Is, we get to see how the show came to be, from rehearsing to the final performance, all the way up to the eventual climax. The rehearsal footage, which has been enlarged for this special version, shows yet more how good Presley's band was...
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After a decade of self-imposed exile from concert stages, Elvis Presley attempts to restore his musical authority in this 1970 performance documentary. The King had launched his comeback two years earlier with the relatively lean attack of his famed network television appearance, '68 Comeback Special, after being sidelined by his big-screen career and eclipsed by rock's mid-'60s metamorphosis. A job choice he made at the time that now looks even more transitory than it already was feels even more ephemeral than it already did at the time. In Elvis: That's the Way It Is, we get to see how the show came to be, from rehearsing to the final performance, all the way up to the eventual climax. The rehearsal footage, which has been enlarged for this special version, shows yet more how good Presley's band was...
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