Download or read book Elvis Presley written by Wilborn Hampton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?Elvis left no one indifferent to rock and roll??so begins award-winning author Wilborn Hampton?s thoughtful account of the beloved and controversial Elvis Presley. When Elvis shook his hips and sang his soulful songs, teenagers screamed and parents fretted. Fans, record executives, movie producers, and even the army wanted a piece of this enigmatic performer and shy boy from Tupelo, Mississippi. What Elvis gave them changed music forever. This latest addition to Viking?s ongoing biography series, Up Close, includes gorgeous black-and-white photographs and introduces readers to the complicated life of the king of rock and roll.
Download or read book Elvis Close up written by Jay B. Leviton and published by Fireside. This book was released on 1988 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs taken in 1956 show Elvis Presley on the road, in rehearsal, backstage with fans, and in concert
Download or read book Elvis by Those Who Knew Him Best written by Heard Clayton and published by Virgin Books Limited. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elvis died on 16 August 1977. He was just 42 years of age and had been the first global superstar of the rock'n'roll era: the King. An eager world followed his every appearance, flocked to his movies and bought his records in the millions. But what was he like as a colleague, as a friend, as a brother, as a lover? Imagine Elvis's relatives, friends, musical colleagues and business associates gathering to remember him and swap stories about him. In this close-up and intimate oral biography, that's just what nearly one hundred and fifty of them do, many of them speaking for the first time.
Download or read book Elvis written by Bonnie Christensen and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An only child, a mama's boy-Elvis was a shy kid who struggled to make friends and found comfort singing in church and learning guitar. While in high school, he continued his music but was often ridiculed by students. On a whim, he recorded a song for his mom's birthday at Sun Record Studios as part of a customer promotion. The studio loved it so much that they sent it to local record stations . . . and the rest is history. Here is the story of how a poor kid from Tupelo, Mississippi, became an American legend.
Download or read book Up and Down with Elvis Presley written by Marge Crumbaker and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1981 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We Remember Elvis written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elvis My Best Man written by George Klein and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The touching story of thirty years of friendship between George Klein and the King that “offers an insider’s view of Presley the man as opposed to Presley the singer, actor, and icon” (Associated Press). “You capture the essence of Elvis not only in dialogue, but also in giving the reader a sense of his personality, humor, and his spirit of play.”—Priscilla Presley When George Klein was an eighth grader at Humes High, he couldn’t have known how important the new kid with the guitar—the boy named Elvis—would later become in his life. But from the first time GK (as he was nicknamed by Elvis) heard this kid sing, he knew that Elvis Presley was someone extraordinary. During Elvis’s rise to fame and throughout the wild swirl of his remarkable life, Klein was a steady presence and one of Elvis’s closest and most loyal friends until his untimely death in 1977. In Elvis: My Best Man, a heartfelt, entertaining, and long-awaited contribution to our understanding of Elvis Presley and the early days of rock ’n’ roll, George Klein writes with great affection for the friend he knew about who the King of Rock ’n’ Roll really was and how he acted when the stage lights were off. This fascinating chronicle of boundary-breaking and music-making through one of the most intriguing and dynamic stretches of American history overflows with insights and anecdotes from someone who was in the middle of it all. From the good times at Graceland to hanging out with Hollywood stars to butting heads with Elvis’s iron-handed manager, Colonel Tom Parker, to making sure that Elvis’s legacy is fittingly honored, GK was a true friend of the King and a trailblazer in the music industry in his own right.
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 Me and a Guy Named Elvis written by Jerry Schilling and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Private Presley written by Andreas Schroer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2002-08-06 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive examination of Elvis Presley's years in Germany as an American GI-with hundreds of never-before-seen photographs and revelations from Elvis intimates."--Book jacket front flap.
Download or read book The Boy Who Would Be King written by Earl Greenwood and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1991-08 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cousin of Elvis chronicles the King's poor beginnings in Mississippi; his relationship with his abusive, alcoholic mother; his fame; his service in the army; courtship with Priscilla; days in Vegas; and his tragic death.
Download or read book Elvis in His Own Words written by Elvis Presley and published by Omnibus Press& Schirmer Trade Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives the reader personal insight into the music and world of Elvis. Fully illustrated throughout.
Download or read book Down at the End of Lonely Street written by Peter H. Brown and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1998-07-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: for treble recorder and piano A light and airy piece for Christmas. The recorder line is simple and is accompanied by an equally accessible piano part.
Download or read book Sacred Science of Numbers written by Corinne Heline and published by Devorss Publications. This book was released on 1981-06-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elvis written by Marie Clayton and published by Atlantic Publishing, Croxley Green. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief biography of Elvis Presley, with the story largely told in photographs.
Download or read book Caught in a Trap written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have been written about Elvis Presley and about the mysteries and paradoxes that shrouded his life and his death, but none have answered the why of Elvis' behavior and the meaning of his life as perceptively as Caught in a Trap. Rick Stanley was Elvis' younger brother.
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:
