new sonny west book

[utmom2008]

Hi NEA,

It was sensationalist in that it focused on the darker sides of Elvis' life, rather than being sugar coated.

The events described in the book are true. The sensationalism is that they focused on these rather than saying Elvis was perfect.

I don't think I have contradicted myself, well at least I hope you now see what I mean by sensationalism in regard to what was put into the book.

Elvis used cocaine. Red did it with him on the balcony of the Las Vegas Hilton in 75', he used to soak cotton wool balls in liquid coke and put it in his nose. Most of the guys who are honest about events will admit he used it.

He used LSD in the 60's with Priscilla, shes admitted that. But he did use Coke in the late 70's. The fact none was found in his bloodstream only indicates he didn't use it before he died.

Elvis and Priscilla tried an LSD tablet ONCE...only ONCE

[utmom2008]

I`m very shocked about this as far as I know he never used cocaine.
As for those three scumbags they were short of money because the person who had supplied it had sacked them. Their reaction was to do a book that would depict Elvis in the most wicked light possible and they did that.
In my opinion it wasn`t a true book because it was distorted through anger, bitterness and revenge.
A true book is what reflects the good and the bad of a person and that book was all bad. It was the most awful book about Elvis (apart from Albert Goldman) that I have ever had the misfortune to read.
Sonny West has proved that it was distorted because he admitted that the author Steve Dunleavy had sensationalised it to sell more copies.
Now he says he is writing the truth about Elvis.
All Red West could say was that he did it to help Elvis what rubbish. He later admitted to Todd Slaughter that he did it for the money.
As for Dave Hebler hes that honest that a few years ago there was a programme about a shirt that Frank Skinner had bought at auction and Frank became suspicious that he had been duped because it was claimed to be the one Elvis wore at the Tupelo Fairgrounds but on close inspection it wasn`t that one and the condition was so good and it couldn`t of been it.
Dave Hebler said that Elvis gave it to him in the seventies because it was cluttering up his wardrobe. He is a complete liar.
All three of them make me sick.

AMEN to your entire statement!

[utmom2008]

I won`t give him a chance.

I would not read his book for a million dollars. He makes me sick...........

[utmom2008]

The guys had no experience of working in the real world. They lived in the Elvis bubble for far too long, and quite frankly his dismissal of them, left them high and dry with families. You can sympathise with Elvis, but money makes the world go round and they were never well paid by Elvis to begin with, but to find themselves with no job is a different story.

Most of the guys admit they lived the same life as Elvis did. The drugs, the sex etc.., they actually are similar to Elvis. They lived with him for so long, they couldent but be a bit like him.

The stories are true. Elvis was alive when this book was published, if their was anything which wasnt true, he could have sued. At least they had the balls to write a book while he was alive.

Elvis was a brilliant entertainer and did many many wonderful things. Just some fans have this sugar coated angelic image of him, and some of them would even deny he had a prescription drug problem. He was human, and I hope Sonny shows some more aspects of Elvis' human side in his new book.

The book was released Aug. 1st, 1977. I guess Elvis had 16 days to get a lawsuit underway....

[utmom2008]

Or maybe he was just trying to get through the crappy dialogue as quickly as possible!

LOL...one of the truest statements on this whole thing! LOL...