Reading Books About Elvis

[MauriceColgan]

Elvis and Glady', An excellent book but a little heavy on the schoolgirl psychology. Read it years ago and often return to it for research.

Scotty Moore's book is fascinating. Bought this revised edition just last week. Of course meeting Scotty backstage in Dublin Ireland was a very special treat for us. A lovely well mannered man.

We have quite a library of books about Elvis...it just keeps growing:-)

What is your favourite Elvis book?

[VEP]

My favorite Elvis Book is : Revelations by the Memphis Mafia

[MauriceColgan]

This one is one of my favourites.LOL. I think it was the first Elvis book I purchased.

[graceland123]

my favourite is probably larry gellers book. very deep and very truthful.
Elvis confided so much of his inner feelings to larry and its probably the closest we`ll ever get to what Elvis was really like and what he felt.

[Dovey]

That is my favorite book also Graceland123.... at least it is believeable!!!

[MauriceColgan]

Discerning Elvis fans will appreciate this book by a Rachmaninoff biographer

Elvis books that I would find less important, I get from our well stocked library which is just two minutes from our home.

All the Elvis books I have ordered from the library have arrived within a couple of weeks

[polksaladhasie]

Does anyone know

anything about this book? I just "buyed" it today and will get it per mail...

[0349054]

Elvis and the Memphis Mafia is one of the best Elvis books written in my opinion.

I enjoyed Larry's book as well, the other books mentioned in this thread apart from Elvis and Galdys are not worth reading if you want to know about Elvis himselvis! Look at some of the literary discussions on some of the websites and the best books keeping coming up again and again.

[Eve]

[Donut]

my favourite is probably larry gellers book. very deep and very truthful.
Elvis confided so much of his inner feelings to larry and its probably the closest we`ll ever get to what Elvis was really like and what he felt.

One of my favorites too it shows Elvis from a more human point of view. I enjoyed june Juanico?s book too but sometimes i wonder how memories can be so accurate ...

[MauriceColgan]

Comprehensive reading is the key. The more books the merrier, some salt is required when reading the likes of Geller, and a few others too.

[0349054]

Yes Pop Club would give a much better insight than someone who was actually there!

[elvislady]

i agree elvis and the memphis mafia is one of the best books i have read. also (elvis and cathy)( me n elvis by charlie hodge) larry geller. and (elvis what happend ).
i enjoyed all these books.
elvislady

[MauriceColgan]

Priscilla was there too Maybe not a genius like Geller though. Mystic nonsense does little to enhance the Elvis story.

But I guess a few fools will always fall for the words of charlatans.

Thank goodness we have a lot more Elvis books by really intelligent authors to explore.

[0349054]

I agree Elvis Lady. All really good books, and of course first hand info is always the best. I prefer it to some authors interpretation, I can come to my conclusions....don't need someone else to form an opinion for me, although some of them are well written and an interesting read.

The guys are great to listen to and read and hear all the stories about Elvis. Charlie was a ncie guy and the few times I met him found his stories on Elvis while we sitting down chatting very interesting, he never liked to talk about Aug 16th 1977 though. Can't blame him for that,

[JDD]

Priscilla was there too Maybe not a genius like Geller though. Mystic nonsense does little to enhance the Elvis story.

But I guess a few fools will always fall for the words of charlatans.

Thank goodness we have a lot more Elvis books by really intelligent authors to explore.

I don't know Maurice, if you disregard all the "mystic nonsense"that Geller and Elvis were into, that all the other guys say they spent hours locked away discussing those types of books, you lose a whole piece of the puzzle IMO. Have you seen the lists of the books that Elvis himself read?
He was obviously interested in some of what some of us would call Nonsense and that all helped shape the man. In some folks opinions I'm not supposed to be interested in the man behind the legend but I am. I like to read about what he was interested in, and believed, and didn't believe. It doesn't change what I believe, I can figure that out with or without Elvis, but it does give me a insight that interests me into Elvis himself.

Personally I'd love to get a chance to kick back sometime and look through Elvis copies of his Erik Van Daniken books he had all over the place, and the shroud of tourin books and his others, just to read the notes that he supposedly wrote all over inside them.

[MauriceColgan]

It's a great pity Elvis did not have really intelligent people to talk with.

The crap Elvis read did him as much good as it does the lunatic fringe associated with that kind of rubbish. It hardly set him on a course to be recommended!!!

[0349054]

Your post says it all. Larry Geller is a good friend of mine and I can assure you he is an intelligent man as are most of the Memphis Mafia, they are all successful in their own right after Elvis.

Your opinion of Elvis's interests is really very telling.

[Eve]

Elvis is said to be the most photographed man in history, if not the most photographed person. This book answers the question "who is Elvis standing with on that picture?"

Design

The book is a big sized, full color book with a really cool picture on the front; just Elvis, no other celebrity. The quality of the pictures is overall good, but due to the subject and the various sources some variation in quality, but that is to be expected.

Content

The title covers the content perfectly; Elvis and other celebrities. This book answers the question "who is Elvis standing with on that picture?" with a background on all the persons photographed with Elvis. It is nice to see that in the beginning Elvis is photographed with others, while in the end others are photographed with Elvis.

Especially on the early pictures (e.g. backstage at the
Opry) you can see Elvis is proud to have his picture taken with the celebrities he met on tour. But looking back, all people will probably say, "I had my picture taken with Elvis" and own a little piece of history.

The last celebrity to meet Elvis is Elvis fan Bruce Springsteen on may 28th. 1977, but no photo exists.

Browsing through the pages and see all the familiar and some unfamiliar faces and read the background on these people and their meeting with Elvis. A lot of pictures are known, but the author managed to find a few original pictures of Elvis and other celebrities we didn?t know.

Conclusion

A very interesting A-Z book, not just about Elvis, but also about all the people Elvis met, or was it the other way around? As a fan, this is a good addition to any collection to have facts and details on hand when you need them.

[MauriceColgan]

I'm interested in Elvis's best music first and foremost.

The gossip of Elvis's so-called friends is just that, gossip. We read it and forget it.

Then we read again the many excellent books about Elvis's and his astounding career in music.