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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Elvis Presley is a giant figure in American popular culture, a man whose talent and fame were matched only by his later excesses and tragic end. A godlike entity in the history of rock and roll, this twentieth-century icon with a dazzling voice blended gospel and rhythm and blues with country to create a completely new kind of music and new way of expressing male sexuality, which blew the doors off a staid and repressed 1950s America. In Being Elvis,...
Author
Publisher
Eagle Eye Media
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
This film tells the story that lies behind the making of Elvis Presley's first album for RCA Records in 1956, and his rise to superstardom. Includes performances from '55 and '56, interviews with Elvis, and home movie footage. Featured songs include Blue suede shoes, Shake rattle and roll, Tutti frutti, Money honey, Heartbreak hotel, Mystery train, Baby let's play house, That's all right.
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Ona 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 teenage 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...
Author
Series
Killing volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The King is dead. The Walrus is shot. The Greatest is no more. Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. These three icons changed not only the worlds of music, film, and sports, but the world itself. Their faces were known everywhere, in every nation, across every culture. And their stories became larger than life-until their lives spun out of control at the hands of those they most trusted. In Killing the Legends, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Almost the only indisputable fact about Colonel Tom Parker is that he was the manager of the greatest performer in popular music: Elvis Presley. His real name wasn't Tom Parker – indeed, he wasn't an American at all, but a Dutch immigrant called Andreas van Kujik. And he certainly wasn't a proper military colonel: he purchased his title from a man in Louisiana. But while the Colonel has long been acknowledged as something of a charlatan, this book...
6) Elvis
Publisher
[Warner Home Video]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Elvis Presley rises to fame in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
7) The King
Publisher
Oscillscope
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Driving a Rolls-Royce once owned by Elvis Presley - with a revolving crew of musicians in the backseat - director Eugene Jarecki embarks on a cross-country road trip to explore how Elvis lost his authenticity as America lost its soul. Nominated for the Golden Eye Award at the 2017 **Cannes Film Festival**. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**. *"Sprawling and brilliant."* - David Ehrlich, ***indieWire*** *"Perceptive, probing and ultimately...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture.
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is the first biography to go past that myth and present an Elvis beyond the legend. Based on hundreds of interviews and nearly a decade of research, it traces the evolution not just of the man but of the music and of the culture he left utterly transformed,...
Publisher
Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"Elvis by the Presleys is the most revealing and poignant video portrait we will ever see of the artist as husband, father and friend. As never before, Priscilla Presley and Lisa Marie Presley, along with members of Elvis' family and extended family, freely share their own stories, emotions and intimate memories on camera, and they allow us to enjoy home-movie footage of Elvis never before shared with his fans"--Container.
13) Elvis & Nixon
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The story of the infamous meeting between Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon in 1970, which was immortalized in the most requested phonograph in the National Archives.
14) In odd we trust
Author
Series
Odd Thomas prequels volume 1
Publisher
Del Ray/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
15) Elvis on tour
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Documentary featuring Elvis Presley's 1972 comeback concerts, as well as montages from Elvis's early career.
16) This is Elvis
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1983, 1981
Language
English
Description
An inside look at the life of rock and roll's "King" from his earliest days through his army career and marriage to his era in movies and Las Vegas shows. Draws on rare documentary footage and interviews with many of the people who knew him best, including Presley's family members, his friends and employees, and his mentor and manager Colonel Tom Parker.
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