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

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Inače su mi glazbene biografije jedne od najdražih knjiga i zaista obožavam na neki način ući u život ljudi čiju glazbu svakodevno slušam. 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. 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. 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’s abuse of prescription medicine and his tragic death.

Thousands and thousands of people lined both sides of the street, standing in solemn respectful silence as the procession passed by. Elvis worked incredibly hard to achieve what he did, and if my book accomplishes anything, I want it to remind people what a revolutionary force he was in kicking down barriers - between different kinds of music and between people of different races - and in opening up a whole new world of possibilities for us with the gift of rock and roll.For all the kids who first got excited about the sound of rock and roll, there were twice as many who thought it sounded just horrible. So, when I picked up Jerry Schilling's memoir, I wasn't expecting to learn anything new, but boy, was I in for a surprise! That's what I wanted to capture in my book, because the Elvis I knew was not a legend - he was a man.

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. But I still have to wonder how Jerry could become friends with the Colonel and respect him for what he had done for Elvis. It was when Elvis took the stage that the place just about exploded… As soon as Elvis started moving, the energy that came off that stage was even bigger than anything the crowd was throwing back at him… He handled the show like a real pro, working the crowd masterfully. He is best friends with Priscilla, so we only get tiny fragments of her in the memoir and all of them are positive. I used to think it was because they simply didn't want to lose their job or their place in the inner circle - and maybe that's true for some - but you can also see in this book how perhaps their lack of confrontation or telling hard truths might also have had to do with an unwillingness to hurt someone they loved, someone who was a fragile soul in so many ways.What makes "Me and a Guy Named Elvis" most extraordinary is the deep level of love and friendship the two men shared.