Spring Tours '77 - Elvis Presley

Anyone reading my latest string of Elvis album reviews will already by now know that I am a big fan of the king of rock and roll and also a big fan of the work FTD, the Elvis specialist record company do and this album is another tribute to both how good Elvis was and still is and also how good the work carried out on his work by FTD is too. The spring tours 77 album both fills me with awe of just how good a live performer Elvis was and sadness at what was happening to the great man. By this stage in Elvis`s life he was a deeply unhappy man with the breakdown of his marriage and his ill health really starting to take their toll on him. Due to his ...  Read the complete review

By 1977 Elvis was not a happy person. His marriage had fallen apart, his body seemed to be giving up on him (mainly because of the drug abuse he had put it through), and his constant live performances, which once he had enjoyed, seemed to be only happening as his manager was in debt and so needed to keep his cash cow going. As a result of this unhappiness Elvis refused to go into the recorded studio and so his record company, RCA, sent recording engineers to the live concerts in the hope of capturing some good performances to then put onto new albums. This album, SPRING TOURS '77, from the Elvis specialist record label FTD, brings together a number ...  Read the complete review