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Me and a guy named elvis My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley. Cover Image E-book E-book

Me and a guy named elvis [electronic resource] : My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley. Jerry Schilling.

Schilling, Jerry. (Author).

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Commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Elvis'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, 'that's All Right,? had just received its first play 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 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. Over the next thirteen years Jerry would work for Elvis in various capacities?from bodyguard to photo double to co-executive producer on a karate...

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  • ISBN: 9781101216811 (electronic bk)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource

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Electronic reproduction. New York : Gotham, 2006. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 10375 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB).
Genre: Electronic books.

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