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Author
Series
Killing volume 12
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The King is dead. The Walrus is shot. The Greatest is no more. Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. These three icons changed not only the worlds of music, film, and sports, but the world itself. Their faces were known everywhere, in every nation, across every culture. And their stories became larger than life-until their lives spun out of control at the hands of those they most trusted. In Killing the Legends, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard...
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 560 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture.
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is the first biography to go past that myth and present an Elvis beyond the legend. Based on hundreds of interviews and nearly a decade of research, it traces the evolution not just of the man but of the music and of the culture he left utterly transformed,...
3) Elvis
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (159 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Elvis Presley rises to fame in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a lazy Sunday in 1954, 12 year-old Jerry Schilling wandered into a Memphis touch-football game, only to discover his team was quarterbacked by a 19 year-old Elvis Presley, the local teen whose first record, "That's all right", had just debuted on Memphis radio. The two became fast friends, even as Elvis turned into the world's biggest star. In 1964, Elvis invited Jerry to work for him as part of this "Memphis Mafia", and Jerry soon found himself...
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (159 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at the life and career of Elvis Presley with shots of his live performances, clips from his films, and home movies of good times with friends and family. Disc 1 spotlights Elvis' physical appeal from his first performances that shocked a nation to one week before his death. Includes rare footage of his first Hollywood screen test and one of his last filmed performances. Disc 2 offers a glimpse into Elvis' private life and the difficult realities...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 362 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Taking a fresh look at the twentieth-century icon who fundamentally transformed American culture, a veteran rock journalist explores the extravagance and irrationality inherent in the Elvis mythology, offering a thoughtful celebration of an immortal life.
"Elvis Presley is a giant figure in American popular culture, a man whose talent and fame were matched only by his later excesses and tragic end. A godlike entity in the history of rock and roll,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (205 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A two-part profile of Elvis Presley begins with his early life in Mississippi; his first encounter with Sun Records Sam Phillips; tours of the South; and his decision to sign with a national label after his manager, Col. Tom Parker, bought out his contract.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Determined to fulfill her husband's last request, Claudia McIntosh is hauling a three-foot bust of Elvis Presley in the back seat of a vintage Cadillac from Dallas to Memphis, hoping to locate the kitschy sculpture's rightful owner. Along for the ride are her eccentric aunt who knew the King of Rock 'n' Roll and a temper mental teen with a suspicious mind of her own.
Author
Series
Genius Files volume 3
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Coke and Pepsi McDonald continue on their dangerous cross-county road trip, stopping at strange-but-real destinations in the South and facing such perils as an evil Elvis impersonator, a vat of acidic soda, and a giant recycling shredder" --
15) Elvis is King!
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Presents the life and legacy of Elvis Presley, from his birth in Mississippi through his music career, his time in the army, his marriage, and his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time. The conventional wisdom is that Las Vegas is what destroyed Elvis Presley, launching him on a downward spiral of drugs, boredom, erratic stage behavior, and eventually his fatal overdose. But in Elvis in Vegas, Richard Zoglin takes an alternate view, arguing that Vegas is where the King of Rock and Roll resurrected his career, reinvented...
Author
Publisher
Dey St. an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 369 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, some color ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Songwriter and actress Linda Thompson breaks her silence for the first time to share the extraordinary story of her life, career, and her epic romances with two of the most celebrated, yet enigmatic, modern American superstars--Elvis Presley and Bruce Jenner. Contains lyrics to many of her songs.
18) Elvis & Ginger
Author
Publisher
Ace Books/Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiv, 383 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
19) Elvis and me
Author
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
320 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
That voice, those eyes, that hair, the cars, the girls. Elvis Presley revolutionized American pop culture when, at twenty-one, he became a modern superstar. He had a personal style that, like his music, had an immediate impact on his audience that continues to influence us today. ”Elvis Presley is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century,” proclaimed Leonard Bernstein. His appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show “ripped the 1950s in half,”...