Elvis Lives
Over the past 20 years, the man has become invisible behind the kitsch iconography. And his music, some of the freshest on the planet, is so familiar it’s hard to hear. Luckily, we’ve got the new four-CD ““Platinum: A Life in Music,’’ with alternate takes to shake up our synapses; next year we’ll have the final volume of Peter (““Last Train to Memphis’’) Guralnick’s biography; his project has been to ““rescue Elvis Presley from the dreary bondage of myth, from the oppressive aftershock of cultural significance....