商品簡介
Commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of ElvisA's death, an intimate memoir of a friendship with the greatest artist in rock and roll history, taking you from late-night parties at Graceland to the bright lights of Hollywood sets and glittering stages of Vegas.
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, A"ThatA's All Right,A" had just received its first play on Memphis radio. The two became fast friends, even as Elvis turned into the worldA's biggest star. In 1964, Elvis invited Jerry to work for him as part of his A"Memphis Mafia,A" and Jerry soon found himself living with Elvis full-time in a Bel Air mansion and, later, in his own room at Graceland. Over the next thirteen years Jerry would work for Elvis in various capacitiesA-from bodyguard to photo double to co-executive producer on a karate film.
Me and a Guy Named Elvis looks at Presley from a friendA's perspective, offering readers the man rather than the icon. Spanning ElvisA's meteoric rise to those later troubled years, JerryA's story offers never-before-told stories about life inside ElvisA's inner circle, and an insightful, emotional recounting of the great times, hard times, and unique times he and Elvis shared. SchillingA's vivid memories will be priceless to ElvisA's millions of fans, and his compelling life story will be fascinating to an even wider audience.
作者簡介
Jerry Schilling has spent forty years in the entertainment industry as an actor, a film editor, producer, and a manager for such acts as the Beach Boys, Jerry Lee Lewis and Billy Joel. His credits as a film and television producer include Elvis: Great Performances; the ten- hour series The History of Rock N’ Roll; A&E biographies of Brian Wilson and Sam Phillips. He also appeared in the recent CBS special Elvis by the Presleys. He lives in Los Angeles in a home purchased for him by Presley.
Chuck Crisafulli is a veteran entertainment journalist and the author of several books, most recently Go to Hell: A Heated History of the Underworld.
