Download or read book Elvis Returns to Graceland written by D. P. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While living eternally in Heaven, Elvis Presley peers through the clouds down to where he once lived his mortal life . . . and sees a world filled with chaos. The date is August 16, 2020, and the entire world is upside down, suffering through the COVID-19 pandemic, racial strife and unrest, violent protests, political upheaval, and non-unity between the many, many people Elvis once knew as his adoring fans. Elvis becomes quite distraught, and somehow convinces God that he can make a difference for the better if he can just go back to Earth. God allows Elvis to return as his 33-year-old self, wearing nothing but a sequenced jumpsuit, his jewelry, and his famous large-rimmed sunglasses. God also has one other provision: Elvis will be a mortal human being once again . . . but for only one month. After that, he must return to the land of Milk and Honey, God's glorious Kingdom. Can Elvis, arguably the greatest entertainer who ever lived, change the world for the better in only 30 days? For Elvis, it's now or never. He has no doubt he can change the world. But the question remains, will the mortal world change Elvis?
Download or read book Graceland written by Karal Ann Marling and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes what Graceland, the home Elvis Presley built in Memphis, tells about the late singer's life and personality.
Download or read book Elvis Returns to Graceland written by D P Smith, III and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While living eternally in Heaven, Elvis Presley peers through the clouds down to where he once lived his mortal life . . . and sees a world filled with chaos. The date is August 16, 2020, and the entire world is upside down, suffering through the COVID-19 pandemic, racial strife and unrest, violent protests, political upheaval, and non-unity between the many, many people Elvis once knew as his adoring fans. Elvis becomes quite distraught, and somehow convinces God that he can make a difference for the better if he can just go back to Earth. God allows Elvis to return as his 33-year-old self, wearing nothing but a sequenced jumpsuit, his jewelry, and his famous large-rimmed sunglasses. God also has one other provision: Elvis will be a mortal human being once again . . . but for only one month. After that, he must return to the land of Milk and Honey, God's glorious Kingdom. Can Elvis, arguably the greatest entertainer who ever lived, change the world for the better in only 30 days? For Elvis, it's now or never. He has no doubt he can change the world. But the question remains, will the mortal world change Elvis?
Download or read book Christmas with Elvis written by Robert K. Elder and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate Christmas with the King of Rock n' Roll! For Elvis, Christmas at Graceland was a time for family and friends, a respite from the road and the recording studio. It was a time to sing gospel songs around the piano and give out extravagant gifts. In this spirit, Christmas with Elvis is designed like a Christmas party Elvis himself would have liked. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at the iconic music and songs Elvis sang and recorded for his bestselling holiday albums, alongside favorite stories, trivia, and Yuletide cocktails and munchies—all wrapped up with a merry Christmas twist fit for the King of Rock ’n’ Roll. ELVIS™ and ELVIS PRESLEY™ are trademarks of ABG EPE IP LLC Rights of Publicity and Persona Rights: Elvis Presley Enterprises, LLC © 2021 ABG EPE IP LLC elvis.com
Download or read book Elvis Presley s Love Me Tender written by Elvis Presley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The king of rock-and-roll's #1 hit song "Love Me Tender" is now an endearing picture book Adapted from the unforgettable classic song, Elvis Presley's Love MeTender is a heartwarming ode to the special bond between children and the adults who love and care for them--be they parents, grandparents, adoptive parents, aunts, uncles, or guardians. With its simple, timeless message, Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender is destined to join Guess How Much I Love You as a baby shower staple. And the sweet, inclusive illustrations make it a book every family will treasure "all through the years, 'till the end of time."
Download or read book Elvis and Ginger written by Ginger Alden and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Careless Love written by Peter Guralnick and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as "a masterwork" by the Wall Street Journal, Careless Loveis the full, true, and mesmerizing story of Elvis Presley's last two decades, in the long-awaited second volume of Peter Guralnick's masterful two-part biography. Winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award Last Train to Memphis, the first part of Guralnick's two-volume life of Elvis Presley, was acclaimed by the New York Times as "a triumph of biographical art." This concluding volume recounts the second half of Elvis' life in rich and previously unimagined detail, and confirms Guralnick's status as one of the great biographers of our time. Beginning with Presley's army service in Germany in 1958 and ending with his death in Memphis in 1977, Careless Love chronicles the unravelling of the dream that once shone so brightly, homing in on the complex playing-out of Elvis' relationship with his Machiavellian manager, Colonel Tom Parker. It's a breathtaking revelatory drama that for the first time places the events of a too-often mistold tale in a fresh, believable, and understandable context. Elvis' changes during these years form a tragic mystery that Careless Love unlocks for the first time. This is the quintessential American story, encompassing elements of race, class, wealth, sex, music, religion, and personal transformation. Written with grace, sensitivity, and passion, Careless Love is a unique contribution to our understanding of American popular culture and the nature of success, giving us true insight at last into one of the most misunderstood public figures of our times.
Download or read book From The Holy Land To Graceland written by Gary Vikan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graceland is much more than a wildly popular historic house and tourist destination associated with a famous entertainer, and Elvis Presley is much more than the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. As former Walters Art Museum director and medievalist Gary Vikan shows us in his fascinating new book, Graceland, the second-most visited historic house in the U.S., is a locus sanctus —a holy place—and Elvis is its resident saint, while the hordes of fans that crowd Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis are modern-day pilgrims, connected in spirit and practice to their early Christian counterparts, sharing a fascination for icons and iconography, relics, souvenirs, votives, and even a belief in miracles. Vikan reveals the emergence of contemporary holy places—Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the Grassy Knoll in Dallas, Place de l’Alma in Paris—and shows us that the saints of our day are our “martyred” secular charismatics, from Elvis to John F. Kennedy, Princess Diana, Michael Jackson, and others.
Download or read book Last Ride to Graceland written by Kim Wright and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction Lauded for her “astute and engrossing” (People) writing style imbued with “originality galore” (RT Book Reviews), Kim Wright channels the best of Jennifer Weiner and Sarah Pekkanen in this delightful novel of self-discovery on the open road as one woman sets out for Graceland hoping to answer the question: Is Elvis Presley her father? Blues musician Cory Ainsworth is barely scraping by after her mother’s death when she discovers a priceless piece of rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia hidden away in a shed out back of the family’s coastal South Carolina home: Elvis Presley’s Stutz Blackhawk, its interior a time capsule of the singer’s last day on earth. A backup singer for the King, Cory’s mother Honey was at Graceland the day Elvis died. She quickly returned home to Beaufort and married her high school sweetheart. Yearning to uncover the secrets of her mother’s past—and possibly her own identity—Cory decides to drive the car back to Memphis and turn it over to Elvis’s estate, retracing the exact route her mother took thirty-seven years earlier. As she winds her way through the sprawling deep south with its quaint towns and long stretches of open road, the burning question in Cory’s mind—who is my father?—takes a backseat to the truth she learns about her complicated mother, the minister's daughter who spent a lifetime struggling to conceal the consequences of a single year of rebellion.
Download or read book Elvis written by Jerry Hopkins and published by Plexus Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elvis Presley is the single biggest personality in American popular culture. Over three decades after his death in August 1977, he remains the undisputed king of rock'n'roll. Featuring a wealth of first-hand interviews, Elvis combines Jerry Hopkins's two previous classic bestselling Elvis biographies - Elvis: A Biography and Elvis: The Final Years - with all-new material to give the definitive detailed account of Presley's fantastic life
Download or read book Elvis written by Shirley Connell and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inside Graceland written by Nancy Rooks and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you wanted a picture of the life of Elvis Presley, who better to paint it for you than someone who worked as his trusted cook and maid at Graceland? Someone whose daily tasks centered around keeping the ́King of Rock & Roll ́ happy, whose every move was designed to please the greatest music legend the entertainment world has ever known. Here is that picture, as painted by Nancy Rooks. Nancy worked for Elvis from 1967 until his untimely death in 1977. Read her stories of what those years were like, of what the routines were at Graceland, and what it meant to be close to Elvis and his family on a daily basis. Read the sad account of her rushing upstairs, after a frantic call from Ginger Alden, and finding him on the bathroom floor. This book presents that picture, one that every Elvis fan will want to see.
Download or read book Last Train To Memphis written by Peter Guralnick and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of two volumes that make up what is arguably the definitive Elvis biography. Rich in documentary and interview material, this volume charts Elvis' early years and his rise to fame, taking us up to his departure for Germany in 1958. Of all the biographies of Elvis - this is the one you will keep coming back to.
Download or read book Shades of Elvis Special written by Ameruoso Presley and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors Christopher Ameruoso/Priscilla Presley bring you a tribute to Elvis Presley featuring over 75 talents wearing Elvis Presley's personally owned sunglasses.This book is unique to fact that it is only available to purchase online. The book is constantly updated with new talents photographed wearing Elvis's shades.Each new talent is added into the book and uploaded. Now that person is featured in this special tribute.As photographed by Christopher Ameruoso.Talent Featured in the book include:Adam Lambert, Alice Cooper, Billy Gibbons/ZZtop, Billy Ray Cyrus, Bo Derek, Buzz Aldrin, Carmen Electra, Celine Dion, Charlie Sheen, Cher, Chuck Garric, David Arquette, David Copperfiled, Def Leppard, Eddie Van Halen, Elton John, Elvira, Fran Dresher, Frances Fisher, Gene Simmons, Helen Mirren, Henry Winkler, Holly Madison, Jaclyn Smith, Frankie Banali, Jillian Michaels, Joe Mantegna,John Corbet, John Stamos, Johnny Depp, Dj Ashba, Jose Feliciano, Juliette Lewis,Ken Howard, Kevin Sorbo, Lionel Richie, Martin Sheen, Weird Al, Meat Loaf, Michael Bubble,Michale Des Barres, Michael Madsen, Mike Tyson, Orianthi,Ozzy Osbourne, Pamela Anderson, Peter Fonda, Larry Flynt Lita Ford,Shawnee Smith, Steve Valentine,Virginia Madsen, Mac Davis, Rick Springfield, Rob Lowe, Robert Plant, Ron Pearlman, Ronn Moss, Peter Beckett, Rudy Sarzo, Sam Elliotte, Sammy Hagar, Scotty McCreery, Snoop Dogg, Stan Lee,Steven Tyler, Steve Perry, Steve Valenitne, Taryn Manning, Ted Neeley,Thomas Gibson, Tim Burton, Tom Jones, Tony Hawk,Valerie Bertinelli, Willie Nelson and more
Download or read book Is Elvis Alive written by Gail Brewer-Giorgio and published by Tudor Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elvis Lives written by Elvis Presley and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Matching folio to the special live-concert show at the Pyramid Arena in Memphis on August 16, 2002 celebrating the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death. Featuring Elvis via video and a host of former bandmates live on stage, the two-hour concert showcased many favorite hits, including: Are You Lonesome Tonight? * Burning Love * Can't Help Falling in Love * In the Ghetto * My Way * Suspicious Minds * That's All Right * and many more. 23 songs in all!
Download or read book Me and a Guy Named Elvis written by Jerry Schilling and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On a lazy summer Sunday in Memphis in 1954, twelve-year-old Jerry Schilling wandered into a pickup football game in a local park, little realizing that his life was about to change forever. The quarterback that day was a charismatic seventeen-year-old whose first recording, "That's All Right", had debuted earlier that week and was burning up the local airwaves - Elvis Presley." "Elvis and Jerry would strike up a friendship that would grow over the many weekly football games that followed, even as Elvis became the world's biggest star. Jerry soon became a regular at Elvis's raucous all-night parties at Graceland, and after he graduated from college in 1964, Elvis asked him to join his "Memphis Mafia" entourage in Hollywood. Over the next thirteen years Jerry would work for Elvis in various capacities - from bodyguard to photo double to personal trainer to co-executive producer on a karate film. But more than anything else he was Elvis's close friend and confident. Jerry had rooms in Elvis's Bel Air mansion and at Graceland, and became the envoy between Elvis and Colonel Parker when Elvis was performing in Las Vegas. Elvis trusted Jerry with protecting his life when he received death threats, he had Jerry drive him and Priscilla to the hospital the day Lisa Marie was born, and he asked Jerry to accompany him on his famous "lost weekend" trip to meet President Nixon at the White House." "Me and a Guy Named Elvis looks at Elvis from the unique perspective of a close friend, presenting the man rather than the icon. The Elvis Presley Jerry Schilling knew was fiercely intelligent and passionate about his art, a loving and generous man at home with his family and friends, and a fiery and determined spiritual seeker who became a master of martial arts and a self-taught student of philosophy. Jerry reveals Elvis as a relentless prankster and fun-loving man who never truly grew up. He does not shy away from the darker side of Elvis's life, and offers an account of the career frustrations that led to Elvis's abuse of prescription medications that precipitated his early, tragic death."--BOOK JACKET.
