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

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You have had quite the career as a manager Beach Boys, Billy Joel and many others, yet, Elvis will always be your number 1. He ha a lost of respect for Elvis, and it appears that Elvis respected him as Jerry went outside the Elvis circle and obtained other jobs over the years. In 1964, Elvis invited Jerry to work for him as part of his ' Memphis Mafia', and Jerry soon found himself living with Elvis full-time in a Bel Air mansion and, later, in his own room at Graceland. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

I picked this up on audiobook because I'm KIND OF excited about that Elvis biopic coming out by Baz Luhrmann (yes, Romeo + Juliet Luhrmann). He was ready to trust me with his story back then, and I kept that very much in mind as I wrote my book. I thought Schilling himself going to UCLA while working for Elvis was interesting, especially since I grew up in the area and could picture him walking up and down the hill along Sunset. Your love of Elvis came out in every page thank you for writing a classy book and being such a good friend to Elvis and his family.His music lives on, and, almost 30 years after his death, his life and achievements continue to have deep emotional impact on all of us. Elvis, however, veered from this script in that he had a loving, caring upbringing (though poor), and maintained religion and spirituality on his journey through stardom. Thousands and thousands of people lined both sides of the street, standing in solemn respectful silence as the procession passed by. The story begins in Memphis, TN where 12-year-old Jerry starts playing football with a group of neighborhood teenagers, which happens to include a 19-year-old truck driver named Elvis.

One night in Las Vegas, he passed a lounge where a burly singer was "overdoing the Elvis vibrato just a bit," the author says. He sounds like someone who is so generous because he wants to be not because it would have looked good in the papers. I didn’t start this book until a 5-hour road trip on January 6, 2023 and had no intention of finishing it on what would have been Elvis’ 88th birthday on January 8th. During the 70's when he was getting moodier and the drugs were taking over the behavior that he was exhibiting was irrational and the many changes that was taking place during this time had to be heart wrenching.If I can get you to feel - really feel - a bit of what our times together were like, and give you a fresh appreciation of Elvis' life and work, then I will have accomplished in Me And A Guy Named Elvis what I set out to do.