Erstellt: 09. April 2013

ISBN: 1557838585Bei "Applause Theatre" und "Cinema Books" erscheint am 17.09.2013 das 400 Seiten umfassende Buch "Elvis Films FAQ: All That's Left To Know About The King Of Rock 'n' Roll In Hollywood" von Paul Simpson.

Ankündigung des Verlages:
"If Elvis Presley had not wanted to be a movie star, he would never have single-handedly revolutionized popular culture. Yet this aspect of his phenomenal career has been much maligned and misunderstood partly because the King himself once referred to his 33 movies as a rut he had got stuck in just off Hollywood Boulevard.

Elvis Films FAQ explores his best and worst moments as an actor, analyzes the bizarre autobiographical detail that runs through so many of his films, and reflects on what it must be like to be idolized by millions around the world yet have to make a living singing about dogs, chambers of commerce, and fatally naive shrimps. Elvis's Hollywood years are full of mystery, and Elvis Films FAQ covers them all!

Which of his own movies did he actually like? What films did he wish he could have made? Why didn't he have an acting coach? When will Quentin Tarantino stop alluding to him in his movies? And was Clambake really the catalyst for his marriage to Priscilla?

Elvis Films FAQ explains everything you want to know about the whys and wherefores of the singer-actor's bizarre celluloid odyssey; or, as Elvis said, "I saw the movie and I was the hero of the movie."

Quelle: Verschiedene

Erstellt: 09. April 2013

ISBN: 1617130494Mike Eder ist der Autor des 400 Seiten starken Buches "Elvis Music FAQ: All That's Left To Know About The King's Recorded Works", welches am 15.10.2013 bei Backbeat Books erscheint.

Ankündigung des Verlages:
"Why is Elvis Presley's body of recorded work still so relevant nearly 60 years after he began recording? Elvis Music FAQ is for anyone who has been inspired by an Elvis Presley record. Following in the tradition of the FAQ series, in Elvis Music FAQ , a lot of rare information is woven together in one concise, entertaining package.

There are chapters about every year of Elvis's career, including a look at his pioneering original record label Sun; insight on his management; the continued importance of television in his career; a summation of each Presley concert tour; the inside scoop about the role Elvis's band members and songwriters played in his sound; stories about the amusing musical oddities created by those trying to ride on the Elvis success train; details about the contentious role drugs played in his career; and, finally, a full review of every record the King ever issued.

One might say that the only truths about Elvis Presley can be found in the grooves of his records, where his natural talent and passion for music comes through always. Elvis Music FAQ aims to be the one essential companion that explains the reason why the voice heard over the speakers still carries such resonance. Dozens of rare images accompany this engaging text."

Quelle: Verschiedene

Erstellt: 08. April 2013

JAT Publishing feiert in diesem Jahr das 25jährige bestehen und veröffentlicht das Buch "Elvis Presley In King Creole" am 03.06.2013.

Das Buch wird über 140 rare und - so die Ankündigung - unveröffentlichte Fotos beinhalten.

Quelle: JATPublishing.Com

Erstellt: 08. April 2013

Für den 03.06.2013 kündigt JAT Publishing zum 25jährigen Bestehen das Buch "Flip, Flop & Fly - St. Louis To Atlanta: 1973 - 1976" an.

Es wird über 120 rare und unveröffentlichte - so die Ankündigung - S/W- und Farbfotos beinhalten.

Quelle: JATPublishing.Com

Erstellt: 03. April 2013

ISBN: 8499392970Die italienische Broschüre "Elvis" erschien am 25.03.2013 bei Ediciones Saldana. Weitere Infos folgen!

Quelle: Verschiedene

Erstellt: 14. März 2013

ISBN: 1849543585Am 28.03.2013 erscheint das Buch "Elvis Memories: The Real Presley - By Those Who Knew Him" bei Robson Press.

Ankündigung des Verlages:
"This is not just another Elvis Presley biography, although it gets closer to the real Elvis story than many of the hundreds of other books that have dealt with the life of the man his contemporaries have called 'The King'. As the author Michael Freedland puts it in his introduction, "Everyone knows Elvis".

But not the way his close friends, employees and others who entered his life knew him. For this is their story, told in their words. He interviews those who knew Elvis intimately, from the now elderly woman who was at school with him and whose parents foreclosed on the shack they rented to Elvis' mother when his father was in jail, to the maid who prepared his peanut butter sandwiches and hamburgers and watched him line up the girls he wanted to take to his bed.

In between, we meet the black man who remembered sneaking into a local cinema with his pal in defiance of most of the Deep South race laws, members of the so-called 'Memphis Mafia' who went where he went, laughed when he laughed and suffered when he suffered - and usually received a brand new Cadillac for their troubles.

There's also his doctor who denies giving him fatal doses of the drugs he collected along with the hamburgers. Writer and broadcaster Michael Freedland went all over the West Coast and Southland to talk to these people who shared Elvis' life, telling the complex Elvis Presley story in a way more true to the real man than the usual collection of dates, film and song titles."

Quelle: TheRobsonPress.Com