Erstellt: 28. Juni 2012

ISBN: 0199863172Bei der "Oxford University Press" erscheint am 15.01.2013 das Buch "Elvis Presley: A Southern Life" von Joel Williamson.

Ankündigung des Verlages:
"It is hard to believe that there would be any fresh takes on a figure as written about as Elvis Presley. Joel Williamson, an eminent Southern historian, has been working on Elvis for over twenty years and in this biography examines Presley as a product of his time and place in Southern culture, as well as the culture of the Southern girls and women who became his first fans. Rather than interpreting him through the lens of the rise of rock 'n roll and its impact on performers, Williamson looks seriously at the roots of Elvis' life, particularly his "country come to city" family, Tupelo and Memphis in the Depression and wartime years, and the ways in which this shaped his generation of first fans.

He discusses how Presley became the subject of unprecedented interest as a figure of sexual desire for people who, by the standards of their time and place, were not supposed to express sexual ecstasy, especially in public. While Elvis could not understand why he and his music were seen as a threat to good morals, he nonetheless took advantage of female sexual desire for him but lived in fear that the public would see him as a lecherous man who got away with a lifestyle of sexual indulgence.

While he drew on black music, especially gospel, and popularized it for white audiences, and worked with black musicians, he never took a public stand in the Civil Rights Movement bubbling around him in Memphis and the places around the South where he performed. Williamson notes how the early years of performing set the pattern of Elvis' career, leading to long periods after age 23 when he was not making music of much consequence or performing live, but his fans from the early years remained obsessed with him. In the later part of his career, when he performed regular gigs in Las Vegas and toured second-tier cities, he moved beyond the South to a national audience who had bought his albums and watched his movies, but the makeup of his fan base did not substantially change.

Nor did Elvis himself ever move up the Southern class ladder despite his wealth. And, as Williamson notes, many residents of Memphis ignored or were ambivalent about the resident of Graceland during his lifetime. Williamson's work does not attempt to displace Peter Guralnick's Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love but offers a highly readable account of the Presley family, especially Gladys and Vernon, their class, their finances, their religion, and the opportunities for men and women of Elvis' generation and region. It is not a tell-all account by someone who was associated with Elvis, but a historically informed biography by a scholar who moved to Memphis to teach in 1964. Through his emotionally powerful biography emerge the good Elvis, the bad Elvis, and the psychopathic Elvis."

Quelle: OUP.Com

Erstellt: 07. Juni 2012

Presleyana VIIIm August 2012 erscheint die siebte Ausgabe des "Elvis Presley Price Guide" der "Presleyana"-Reihe von Jerry Osborne.

Quelle: JerryOsborne.Com

Erstellt: 01. Juni 2012

iSBN: 1849543585Michael Freedland schrieb das Buch "Elvis Memories - The Real Elvis Presley Recalled By Those Who Knew Him" und es erscheint am 04.10.2012 (einige Versandhändler nennen den 12 Mar 2013) 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 defi ance of most of the Deep South race laws, members of the so-called Memphis Mafi a 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: Verschiedene

Erstellt: 31. Mai 2012

iSBN: 2352873134Am 06.06.2012 veröffentlicht Archipoche das Buch "Elvis Et Les Femmes", welches von Patrick Mahé geschrieben wurde.

Ankündigung des Verlages:
"Margrit, Anita, Tempest, Ann Margret, Linda ou Ginger...

Alors qu'il a chanté l'amour pendant plus de vingt ans et qu'un millier de livres lui ont été consacrés, aucun ne s'attarde sur les conquêtes d'Elvis Presley.

"Love me Tender", "Loving You" jalonnent ses tendres années. Jusqu'au mélancolique "Are you Lonesome Tonight ?", son répertoire traverse les années soixante, celles du bouillonnant rock'n' roll et des flirts brûlants. Hollywood l'a vu tourner "Amour frénétique", chanter "Girls ! Girls ! Girls !", frissonner dans "Live a Little", enflammer les coeurs dans le trépidant "Jailhouse Rock".

À l'écran, sur scène, il a fait de l'amour sa griffe. Mais dans la vie, qu'en est-il ? S'il jongle avec "Blondes, brunes et rousses", ce n'est pas seulement au cinéma. Sans doute Elvis Presley n'a-t-il connu qu'un grand amour, Priscilla, qu'il épouse à Las Vegas et qui lui donne sa fille unique, Lisa Marie. Mais combien d'autres conquêtes ? Des dizaines ! Le livre révèle que, pour Elvis, il y avait une vie sentimentale avant, pendant et après Priscilla."

Quelle: Verschiedene

Erstellt: 27. Mai 2012

Der japanische Fan Club "For Elvis Sound Fans Only" veröffentlichte am 25.05.2012 das Buch "Elvis Presley - FTD World" und Elvis-Collectors veröffentlicht ein paar Einblicke:

Ausschnitt: FTD World Ausschnitt: FTD World

Ausschnitt: FTD World Ausschnitt: FTD World

Quelle: Elvis-Collectors.Com

Erstellt: 26. Mai 2012

ISBN: 886222267XDer italienische Fan Club Präsident Sebastiano Cecere veröffentlicht am 16.08.2012 das 797 Seiten umfassende Buch "Elvis In Concert: 1945 - 1977".

Das bei Nuovi Equilibri erscheinende und 2 Kilo schwere Buch wird mit folgenden - italtienischen Worten angekündigt:

"Elvis è vivo. Non perché - come alcuni fan sono disposti a giurare - inscenò la sua morte il 16 agosto 1977. Elvis vive perché la sua figura, la mitologia che si è creata intorno alla sua persona, la sua influenza sul mondo del pop e del rock, sulla società tutta sono immortali.

Elvis è stato l'incarnazione stessa dello spirito dei tempi. Più rilevante a fini storici per la seconda metà del Novecento di molti personaggi della politica e della cultura cosiddetta alta, è stato l'icona della gioventù che negli anni Cinquanta reclamava il suo diritto di esistere, divertirsi, spendere e amare in America (e nel mondo). Poi, è diventato il simbolo stesso dello show business fino agli anni Settanta inoltrati, quando, tra l'altro, il rock cambiò definitivamente faccia.

Questo libro è un resoconto dettagliato dell'attività concertistica di Elvis, e ci accompagna giorno per giorno nella vita del performer Presley. Consultando migliaia di fonti e raccogliendo pazientemente negli anni testimonianze dirette e indirette, Sebastiano Cecere ha portato a termine un lavoro immane: ha setacciato la stampa locale americana, interpellato decine e decine di persone che hanno assistito ai concerti di Elvis, ascoltato tutte le registrazioni emerse, letto e messo a confronto la sterminata bibliografia "elvisiana", rintracciando le contraddizioni e facendo emergere nuove interpretazioni, nuovi dati."

Quelle: Verschiedene