Part 2 from Alanna's revealing interview

[Genie]

I don't get upset about how many women claim to have "known" Elvis.
Personally, I could care less. Seldom read these kind of books.
I've only been interested in Elvis, not his women.

I usually don't agree with Brian about much,
However, Alanna Nash is a go between writer..meaning she goes between hear say, rumors and stories from dead beats...
I wouldn't bother to waste my money on her stupid book.

[debtdbruno]

I'm just over 1/2 way through this.........and to be honest it's all getting a bit repetative.

It's all about the movie co-stars at the min......they're all blending into one.........

[Brian]

Once again Brian try to remember..... she is not claiming anything the women say is gospel-she is reporting what they have told her and including
"according to Byron,...: (or whoever the story comes from) that is a far cry from claiming out and out total unreproachable fact!
If you overlook this point you are missing an important part of her reporting the info.

Alanna Nash is the type of writer that if she were writing a book about the history of rock n' roll she'd include Bo Diddley's claims that Elvis stole his stage act when he went to see him at the Apollo theatre in 1955 and that Bo Diddley started doing rock n' roll in 1955 before Elvis!

Both are false but Alanna Nash would write them down anyway and my point is why bother quoting people when you know what they say is false.
or you can find out what they say is false through checking.

Since Elvis died a lot of people have come out of the woodwork claiming all sorts of wild things and false things and Alanna Nash is always putting these myths or dubious people's stories in her books that were proven false years ago.

I know she'll say according to Byron Raphael but just by including what he says gives his stories more credibilty and a platform and a lot people will read it and think it's the truth.

[KPM]

Alanna Nash is the type of writer that if she were writing a book about the history of rock n' roll she'd include Bo Diddley's claims that Elvis stole his stage act when he went to see him at the Apollo theatre in 1955 and that Bo Diddley started doing rock n' roll in 1955 before Elvis!

Both are false but Alanna Nash would write them down anyway and my point is why bother quoting people when you know what they say is false.
or you can find out what they say is false through checking.

Since Elvis died a lot of people have come out of the woodwork claiming all sorts of wild things and false things and Alanna Nash is always putting these myths or dubious people's stories in her books that were proven false years ago.

I know she'll say according to Byron Raphael but just by including what he says gives his stories more credibilty and a platform and a lot people will read it and think it's the truth.

People who do a good job of reporting and writing-have to include the odd information even if questionable-otherwise they are censoring the story as told to them-as long as they always make it clear-this is as told not necessarily fact. I think she does this pretty well.
Most authors will know that information which is questionable will be seen thru by most discerning readers...............
One on one encounters or things which were suppose to be just between a few people may not be able to check satisfactorilly-so they get included because it is one persons story of a situation they claimed happened-unfair perhaps-but thats life.
As far as Bo Diddleys claim about Elvis being in New York in 1955 and seeing him at the Apollo theater Elvis did travel to New York in 1955 to try out for the Arther Godfreys Talent Scouts here is a tidbit about this from a history of the show:
.....Two notable acts rejected for the show were Elvis Presley and Sonny Till & The Orioles. Following his appearances on the Louisiana Hayride, Presley traveled to New York for an unsuccessful Talent Scouts audition in April 1955; after the Talent Scouts staff rejected The Orioles, they went on to have a hit record with "Crying in the Chapel" and kicked off the "bird group" trend of early rock 'n' roll.

Now that does not prove Elvis saw Diddley, but it does leave the door open to that. So there is the Catch 22-report what Diddley said and you say it gives creedance to the story-but if you do not report it-you censor Diddleys thought and story.
Diddley was playing guitar long before Elvis-but Elvis did not steal anything from Bo, although Bo may honestly believe he did.
Bo hit in 1955-so from then on Elvis had to be aware of Bo-before 1955 is questionable but possible.
So thats Bo's opinion of the situation.... he has the right to say it-but that does not make it 100% fact. I think he may have said it so long that he believed it until the day he died

[Sweet_One_E.]

Now I will give my own laymans take on Elvis and Priscilla's change in sexual habits after she had Lisa.
I think Elvis was insecure about older women... he liked young women who he could feel he was the teacher and they were the student. I think older women in a sexual situation threatened him, he was after all a huge sex symbol and expected to be the king in all areas including the bedroom.
So more experienced women would naturally make him a little more hesitant, he liked submissive situations where he was the aggressor and in charge.
When Priscilla began to make the first moves, she became the aggressor, she was trying to become the person in charge in the bedroom and I think this turned Elvis off- I think any women who would come on too strong in the bedroom would turn him off and threaten his masculinity all at the same time.
So he avoided sex with Priscilla-not because she was a mom, but because she was no longer the submissive partner, she was the instigator and it was not to Elvis's liking. I do not think being a mother for any woman Elvis was with had much to do with it-how aggressive was the woman made the difference.
Now thats just my opinion.
I was raised with the whole "good girls you marry and they probably will not like sex"-"bad girls you did not marry and they loved sex"-so that is another mental image in many guys heads into the early 70s which can mess with a mans head.
Women do not reach sexual peak until the late 20s early 30s and when they do-you might suddenly ask-where did the good girl go, how do I understand this change???
No wonder people have such problems with misunformation such as this drilled into the heads of each generation.

That my take as well.

[Elizasong]

I'm 1/2 way through the Alannah book too and I'm losing the excitement I had when I first started reading it. It's a good Harlequin Romance novel to some extent. Sensationalism at it's best. I'll read to the end though. Curiosity I guess.