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...

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.

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,...

A biography of Elvis Presley, whose work, together with that of Muddy Waters and Mick Jagger, shows a progression in which the Southern-based blues of Waters was incorporated into Elvis Presley's rockabilly style and then provided a basis for the rock and roll of Mick Jagger, lead singer of the Rollings Stones. Presley's controversial performing style also opened the door for Jagger's stage antics, and the sense of rebellion attributed to Elvis was...

Recounts the author's childhood determination to emulate Elvis Presley after being inspired by the iconic artist's music, describing how he drove his mother crazy while perfecting his Elvis-style dancing and singing before performing in a talent show.

"What kind of army wants the king of rock-n-roll? Elvis's Army explores the great military and social experiment that was the Cold War atomic army. Militarily, the US Army transformed for the revolution in warfare initiated by the nuclear weapons. Traumatized by Cold War reductions and Korea, it seized on the vision of a great atomic land war against the Soviet Union. It not only adapted a radically new way of fighting, but fundamental changes in...

Explores the life and career of Elvis Presley, including his impoverished childhood, success as a singer who bridged African American and white musical styles, movie and Las Vegas career, personal life, and unexpected death.

Careless Love is the full, true, and mesmerizing story of Elvis Presley's last two decades, in the long-awaited second volume of Peter Guralnick's masterful two-part biography. Last Train to Memphis, the first part of Guralnick's two-volume life of Elvis Presley, was acclaimed by the New York Times as "a triumph of biographical art." This concluding volume recounts the second half of Elvis' life in rich and previously unimagined detail, and confirms...

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.