The DVD Contains recently discovered unreleased film of Elvis performing 6 songs, including Heartbreak Hotel and Don't Be Cruel, live in Tupelo Mississippi 1956.

But if you are an Elvis fan (as I am) then this is still worth a read for some more insight that will bring you closer to the King.Nernie, my wife asks me to read these books so I can tell her what the books were like, and she then, doesn't have to read them and then she can binge watch her soap, General Hospital and her shows, Lost and Twin Peaks. The book is an easy read with lots of interesting dates times and events that Jerry had with Elvis Presley. Now after half a century of living through all kinds of experiences with this man and his family and friends, I've come full circle - I'm now ready to share some history.

Me and a Guy Named Elvis looks at Presley from a friend's perspective, offering readers the man rather than the icon-including insights into the creative frustrations that lead to Elvis's abuse of prescription medicine and his tragic death. I still believe that if Elvis had dumped the Colonel, he could have given more of himself to his movies, traveled overseas and made top-selling records again. Of course there are a LOT more tidbits in the book, but the main focus was his and Jerry’s friendship. 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.Jerry is one of the very few people who had the opportunity to know Elvis long before he became "the king," and he spent over two decades as a member of Elvis's most trusted group of friends - the Memphis Mafia. Jerry Schilling, autor ove knjige, imao je priliku upoznati Elvisa kao dječak na igralištu u Memphisu, kada ga je Elvis pozvao da s njime zaigra nogomet. stormed into the lounge, walked right up onstage, hoisted his cane like he was going clobber the guy and said, 'If you're going to do it, do it right.

EDIT: Since Tom Hanks is playing him in the movie, Jerry also talks about The Colonel and I had never heard of the Colonel outside of this book. What Jerry Schilling has written in Me and a Guy Named Elvis is an account of one man’s experience, a personal memoir that, while it places its narrator squarely in the midst of historic events, never claims credit for those events in the way that so many self-serving memoirs are inclined to do. Its clear that Jerry Schilling was an Elvis insider and witness to so much day-to-day history and hysteria from being around the world's most famous man. What I didn't like was, how Schilling skipped over Elvis's death, it was like a page and then, straight back into what Jerry was doing; IE, managing the Beach Boys. Really, this was (according to Schilling) the reason Elvis got married, forced to by Colonel Parker to force Elvis to grow up and create a more adult image.His personal life is also presented in what I suspect to be a better light than it probably was, only confessing to being unfaithful to his wife once. During the 70's when he was getting moodier and the drugs were taking over the behavior that he was exhibiting was irrational and the many changes that was taking place during this time had to be heart wrenching. I love your honesty you did not feel the need to sensationlize Elvis's affair but touched briefly on the leading ladies in his life. This book kept me up late into the night as I turned the pages, reliving every situation and every story as if I were there all over again, until I finished.

Me and a Guy Named Elvis looks at Presley from a friend's perspective, offering readers the man rather than the icon - including insights into the creative frustrations that lead to Elvis's abuse of prescription medicine and his tragic death. You were with Elvis when he learned of the book from Sonny , Red and Dave he was upset and worried how this would affect his reputation. but have warm hearts toward the oppressed of all classes; *but they hide their feelings, and allow people to think what they please*. He let Jerry’s dad visit and participate, and brought Jerry’s wife into the fold once he got married. I feel that the Colonel prevented him from exercising those attributes and contributed to his drug abuse and death.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. You had worded it very classy saying " we had once prided the world itself on our us against them spirit-but now the difference in lifestyles and attitudes among us made it increasingly harder to pull together as a group" in essence you were growing apart. I don't blame him for this, but I hope he has the real book in a safety deposit box to be released upon his death, but I won't hold my breath.