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

Erstellt: 14. März 2013

ISBN: 0835609154"The Seeker King: A Spiritual Biography Of Elvis Presley" ist ein am 08.10.2013 erscheinendes Buch von Gary Tillery.

Ankündigung:
"A woman in the audience once handed Elvis a crown saying, “You're the King." “No, honey," Elvis replied. “There is only one king — Jesus Christ. I'm just a singer." Gary Tillery presents a coherent view of Elvis's thoughts through such anecdotes and other recorded facts.

We learn, for instance, that Elvis read thousands of books on religion; that his crisis over making bimbo movies like Girl Happy led him to writers such as Gurdjieff,Krishnamurti, and Helena Blavatsky; and that, while driving in Arizona, an epiphany he had inspired him to learn Hindu practice.

Elvis came to believe that the Christ shines in everyone and that God wanted him to use his light to uplift people. And so he did. Elvis's excesses were as legendary as his generosity, yet, despite his lethal reliance on drugs, he remained ever spiritually curious. When he died, he was reading 'A Scientific Search for the Face of Jesus.'

This intimate, objective portrait inspires new admiration for the flawed but exceptional man who said, “All I want is to know and experience God. I'm a searcher, that's what I'm all about."

Quelle: QuestBooks.Net

Erstellt: 11. März 2013

"Elvis Files" Autor Erik Lorentzen hat etwa 100 Publicity Fotos aus dem Jahr 1956 von der Fotogalerie "Frank Powolny" gekauft und wird diese in den nächsten "The Elvis Files"-Magazinen veröffentlichen.

Quelle: ElvisMatters.Be

Erstellt: 08. März 2013

2/2013Der "KulturSPIEGEL" hat in der Ausgabe 2/2013 die CD/DVD-Kuzr-Besprechung "Prince From Another Plante) in folgendem wortlaut:

"Anfang der Siebziger war Elvis längst eine mythenumwehte Ikone. Entsprechend groß war die Aufregung, als er 1972 zum ersten Mal in New York auftrat.

Einen faszinierenden Eindruck der Euphorie bietet nun ein Zwei-CD-Konzertmitschnitt samt DVD mit neuentdeckten Fan-Aufnahmen sowie einer kurzweiligen Dokumentation. CHRISTOPH DALLACH"

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Quelle: Spiegel.De

Erstellt: 04. März 2013

Graceland - Nr. 210"Graceland" in der Ausgabe 210 - das Mitgliedsmagazin der Elvis Presley Gesellschaft - steht kurz vor der Auslieferung.

Themen im Heft sind:

- Porträt: Leiber und Stoller
- FTD´s: "Back In Memphis", "His Hand In Mine", "Promised Land", "That´s The Way It Is", "Elvis Country"
- Nachruf: Gordon Stoker
- Memphis: Die neue "Aloha From Hawaii"-Ausstellung
- The New Gladiator: Dritter Teil über Elvis´ Lieblingssport

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Quelle: Elvis-Presley-Gesellschaft.De

Erstellt: 28. Februar 2013

Ausgabe 99Die März-Ausgabe des englichen Magazins "Elvis - The Man And His Music" beinhaltet diesmal folgende Themen:

- Vintage: Chet Atkins Interview
- An Introduction To Ken Moore
- "It Takes One To Know [Take] One" - Take 2!
- AMMO For Elvis
- Biggest Ever CD Review Section!
- "Presley Has A Good Screen Appeareance" - Contemporary reviews Of The Pre-Army Films

Quelle: NowDigtThis.Co.Uk