Me and a Guy Named Elvis: My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley

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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 afternoon show footage is wonderful and electrifying : Here is Elvis in his prime rocking and rolling in front of 11. But more than anything else he was Elvis' 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. Through the words of this book I grasped that Elvis began to loose his humanness because people talked to him like he was this super hero but he was just a guy that had major talent. His stage jumpsuits had originally been designed to accommodate his intensely physical performances.

Jerry Schilling foi o anjo da guarda de Elvis, de Lisa Marie e, até os dias de hoje, é um grande amigo de Priscilla.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 Pricilla 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. I mean, we all know that Elvis was unable to be faithful to any woman, but "Cilla" wasn't also a fragile victim. 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' abuse of prescription medicine and his tragic death. Frankly, you don't need me to tell you that Elvis was a great performer, that Heartbreak Hotel can still give you chills, or that If I Can Dream can still make you cry.

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.Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. I don't think the intent was to chronicle every single detail of his day-to-day with E but to give a sense for the real man and the friendship. Even at times when Elvis was unreasonable or selfish, there was a lot of grace extended because of his admiration and love for Elvis. I understand that Elvis chose these folks to be around him, so he had a saying in who was around him, and yet, the majority of these men were happy to be yes men to him, happy to mooch on his generosity and enablers of his poor choices.