Me and a Guy Named Elvis: My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley

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Par godina kasnije, prvi put je došao u Graceland kao Elvisov gost, a nedugo nakon toga postao je i Elvisov najbliži suradnik i jedan od najboljih prijatelja. on the other side, the Colonel seemed to have pull in those circles to not have anything move forward, so the Colonel seemed to have things this way. He told Ed that he did not want many people around him involved in this project, but he mentioned only one by name that he did want to be a part of it: me.

In 1964, Elvis invited Jerry to work for him as part of his ' Memphis Mafia', and Jerry soon found himself living with Elvis full-time in a Bel Air mansion and, later, in his own room at Graceland. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

The afternoon show footage is wonderful and electrifying : Here is Elvis in his prime rocking and rolling in front of 11. 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, “That’s All Right,” had just debuted on Memphis radio.

I used to think it was because they simply didn't want to lose their job or their place in the inner circle - and maybe that's true for some - but you can also see in this book how perhaps their lack of confrontation or telling hard truths might also have had to do with an unwillingness to hurt someone they loved, someone who was a fragile soul in so many ways.

Thank you, Jerry Schilling, for being so loyal to a man who may have lost his way by the end of his life. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. In the fall of 1964, when I first went to work for Elvis after a decade of friendship with him, I was a few practice teaching credits shy of becoming a history teacher. Nicks role in Elvis's life ,that he truly wanted to help the man over come his addiction problems, but was over shadowed by las vegas doctors mailing him drugs just to be close to Elvis.