Elvis And The Memphis Mafia
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Elvis And The Memphis Mafia
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Author : Alanna Nash
language : en
Publisher: Aurum
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Elvis And The Memphis Mafia written by Alanna Nash and has been published by Aurum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A monumental oral biography filled with raucous joy, aching loss and terrible poignancy, Elvis & the Memphis Mafia is the first book to capture the King – the man and the phenomenon – in his full complexity. Through revealing interviews with three of Elvis’s closest friends, who were also his protectors and rescuers, Nash achieves the first true mapping of Elvis’s psyche. Billy Smith – Elvis’s first cousin and the person he reputedly loved most after his own mother – Marty Lacker – best man at his wedding and foreman of the ‘Memphis Mafia’, the King’s handpicked group of gatekeepers and confidants – and Lamar Fike – the touring crew member who accompanied him into the Army – were with Elvis from his teens to his final days and provide unique access to the greatest of all rock and roll legends. The revelations cut through every aspect of Elvis’s life, from the childhood seeds of his drug dependency, through his fear for his mother’s life and his plan to change his identity, to his bizarre self-mutilation. No one who reads this symphonic blending of three proud, ribald, sad and ultimately wistful voices can fail to be profoundly moved.
Elvis Aaron Presley
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Author : Alanna Nash
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1995
Elvis Aaron Presley written by Alanna Nash and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The first fully realized portrait of Elvis Presley, based on the recollections of the three men closest to him -- including his first cousin, who has never before spoken on the record -- and written, finally, to set the record straight.
Elvis Aaron Presley
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Author : Alanna Nash
language : en
Publisher: Harpercollins
Release Date : 1996-06-01
Elvis Aaron Presley written by Alanna Nash and has been published by Harpercollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-06-01 with categories.
Based on in-depth interviews with Presley's cousin Billy Smith, his best man Marty Lacker, and touring crew member Lamar Fike, a detailed portrait of Elvis covers his teen years through the final days of his life. Reprint.
Me And A Guy Named Elvis
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Author : Jerry Schilling
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2006-08-17
Me And A Guy Named Elvis written by Jerry Schilling and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
On a lazy Sunday in 1954, twelve-year-old Jerry Schilling wandered into a Memphis touch football game, only to discover that his team was quarterbacked by a nineteen-year-old Elvis Presley, the local teenager whose first record, "That’s All Right," had just debuted on Memphis radio. The two became fast friends, even as Elvis turned into the world’s biggest star. In 1964, Elvis invited Jerry to work for him as part of his "Memphis Mafia," and Jerry soon found himself living with Elvis full-time in a Bel Air mansion and, later, in his own room at Graceland. Over the next thirteen years Jerry would work for Elvis in various capacities — from bodyguard to photo double to co-executive producer on a karate film. But more than anything else he was Elvis’s close friend and confidant: Elvis trusted Jerry with protecting his life when he received death threats, he asked Jerry to drive him and Priscilla to the hospital the day Lisa Marie was born and to accompany him during the famous "lost weekend" when he traveled to meet President Nixon at the White House. Me and a Guy Named Elvis looks at Presley from a friend’s perspective, offering readers the man rather than the icon — including insights into the creative frustrations that lead to Elvis’s abuse of prescription medicine and his tragic death. Jerry offers never-before-told stories about life inside Elvis’s inner circle and an emotional recounting of the great times, hard times, and unique times he and Elvis shared. These vivid memories will be priceless to Elvis’s millions of fans, and the compelling story will fascinate an even wider audience.
Elvis
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Author : Alan Fortas
language : en
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Elvis written by Alan Fortas and has been published by White Lion Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Rock musicians categories.
Alan Fortas and Alanna Nash present this close-up and unguarded portrait of Elvis.
Elvis And Ginger
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Author : Ginger Alden
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-09-02
Elvis And Ginger written by Ginger Alden and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Elvis Presley’s fiancée and last love tells her story and sets the record straight in this deeply personal memoir that reveals what really happened in the final years of the King of Rock n' Roll. Elvis Presley and Graceland were fixtures in Ginger Alden’s life; after all, she was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. But she had no idea that she would play a part in that enduring legacy. For more than three decades Ginger has held the truth of their relationship close to her heart. Now she shares her unique story… In her own words, Ginger details their whirlwind romance—from first kiss to his stunning proposal of marriage. And for the very first time, she talks about the devastating end of it all and the fifty thousand mourners and reporters who descended on Graceland in 1977, exposing Ginger to the reality of living in the spotlight of a short yet immortal life. Above it all, Ginger rescues Elvis from the hearsay, rumors, and tabloid speculations of his final year by shedding a frank yet personal light on a very public legend. From a unique and intimate perspective, she reveals the man—complicated, romantic, fallible, and human—behind the myth, a superstar worshipped by millions and loved by Ginger Alden. INCLUDES PHOTOS
Elvis What Happened
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Author : Steve Dunleavy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Elvis What Happened written by Steve Dunleavy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Motion picture actors and actresses categories.
The Colonel
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Author : Alanna Nash
language : en
Publisher: Aurum Press
Release Date : 2014-06-01
The Colonel written by Alanna Nash and has been published by Aurum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Almost the only indisputable fact about Colonel Tom Parker is that he was the manager of the greatest performer in popular music: Elvis Presley. His real name wasn’t Tom Parker †“ indeed, he wasn’t an American at all, but a Dutch immigrant called Andreas van Kujik. And he certainly wasn’t a proper military colonel: he purchased his title from a man in Louisiana. But while the Colonel has long been acknowledged as something of a charlatan, this book is the first to reveal the extraordinary extent of the secrets he concealed, and the consequences for the career, and ultimately the life, of the star he managed. As Alanna Nash’ prodigious research has discovered, the Colonel left Holland most probably because, at the age of twenty, he bludgeoned a woman to death. Entering the US illegally, he then enlisted in the army as ‘Tom Parker’. But, with supreme irony for someone later styling himself as Colonel, Parker’s military career ended in desertion, and discharge after a psychiatrist had certified him as a psychopath. He then became a fairground barker, working sideshows with a zeal for small-scale huckstering and the casual scam that never left him. And by the height of Elvis’s success, Parker had become a pathological gambler who, at the same time as he was taking, amazingly, a full 50% of Presley’s earnings, frittered away all his wealth in the casinos of Las Vegas. As Nash shows, therefore, the often baffling trajectory of Elvis Presley’s career makes perfect sense once the secret imperatives of the Colonel’s life are known. Parker never booked Presley for a tour of Europe because of the dark secret that ensured he himself could never return there. Even at his most famous, Elvis was still being booked to play out-of-the-way towns in North Carolina †“ because the former fairground barker (who shamelessly negotiated as such even with top record company and film executives) knew them from his days on the circus circuit. And Elvis was trapped playing years of arduous seasons in Las Vegas †“ two shows nightly, seven days a week, until boredom and despair brought on the excessive drug use that killed him †“ because for Parker he was “an open chit†? whose huge earnings prevented his manager’s losses at the gambling tables being called in. Alanna Nash knew Parker towards the end of his life, and has now uncovered the whole story, improbable, shocking, and never less than compelling, of how this larger-than-life man made, and then unmade, popular music’s first and greatest superstar.
Memphis Mafia Princess
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Author : Shirley Dieu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-05-19
Memphis Mafia Princess written by Shirley Dieu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-19 with Actresses categories.
Back in the 1970s, Las Vegas was a playground, not only for the rich and famous, but for anyone with big dreams. Beneath its public glamour and glitz was the private monarchy of Elvis Presley. Most people could only imagine what it was like to be a part of Elvis's world back then, but I lived it. I have written this book without bias or self-proclamation so that I may share the story of what was with those of you who loved him then and those of you who still love and respect him today.
Elvis From Memphis To Hollywood
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Author : Alan Fortas
language : en
Publisher: Popular Culture Ink
Release Date : 1992
Elvis From Memphis To Hollywood written by Alan Fortas and has been published by Popular Culture Ink this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This work is about the life of the King of Rock-and-Roll through the eyes of a friend and former member of Elvis's Memphis Mafia, Alan Fortas, nephew of Associate Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, who spent nearly 12 years close to Elvis from 1957 into the late 1960s, and was on-stage with Elvis at his televised 1968 Singer Comeback Special. His fond recollections of the most interesting and turbulent period in Presley's life and career aim to provide personal insight, and historical perspective.