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

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The book keeps you entertained throughout the journey from first page to last giving you as a reader the uncanny feeling of being a fly on the wall during Elvis' astounding career. It’s still fairly easy to find the classic conspiracy theory that he didn’t actually die (complete with various accounts of sightings). I appreciated it a lot, but one must remember that it is most likely a very biased portrayal of Elvis, Jerry, and other people mentioned. 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. There's a lot of humanity in the stories of Elvis, including his personal thoughts, his sheer generosity, his remarkable insecurity and his relationships with those closest to him.

By the time Warner Bros rolled out their biopic of Elvis in mid-2022, and even though it starred the beloved Tom Hanks as The Colonel, I opted for the depth of a book and the lens of friendship. When you first met him playing football sharing that even though he was a star he was kind, generous friendly. 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. I didn’t start this book until a 5-hour road trip on January 6, 2023 and had no intention of finishing it on what would have been Elvis’ 88th birthday on January 8th. Iz Schillingove knjige, Elvisa upoznajemo kao zapravo jednu vrlu jednostavnu osobu, koja je puno držala do svoje obitelji i obiteljskih vrijednosti, ali isto tako osobu koja je po meni bila pomalo bipolarna i prilično eksplozivna.He was there when Elvis's mother died, when he was drafted into the Army, when he met Priscilla, and when he became a father. He flew back to Memphis with other people from Elvis' group of people, and Priscilla to work on funeral arrangements and to be there with the family and friends of Elvis through the funeral and the days beyond. Schilling has the goodsuwhere else can you read about the King giving karate lessons to Liza Minnelli in a hotel room while Chubby Checker and porn star Linda Lovelace looked on?

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 film. So and so had a horrible childhood, fell in with the wrong crowd, found music (and drugs), made it big, fell to abysmal depths, then (hopefully), cleaned up and discovered life in a more meaningful way. 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. 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. There was maybe one mention of a closed-door meeting with Elvis and the Colonel, which the Colonel came out the victor.I picked this up on audiobook because I'm KIND OF excited about that Elvis biopic coming out by Baz Luhrmann (yes, Romeo + Juliet Luhrmann).

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. What I liked about, "Me and a Guy Named Elvis," is, Jerry Schilling was the most educated person in the Memphis Mafia. Schilling has the goodsawhere else can you read about the King giving karate lessons to Liza Minnelli in a hotel room while Chubby Checker and porn star Linda Lovelace looked on? Elvis "stood, eyed John, and said, 'Let's swap pants,' while simultaneously, in expert [Monty] Python fashion, letting his pajama bottoms drop beneath his robe. Sami dolazak u Graceland, šetnja kućom i dvorištem gdje je Elvis živio, zaista su mi pobudili emocije i zainteresiranost, te sam odlučila malo više kopati i istražiti njegov život.He sounds like someone who is so generous because he wants to be not because it would have looked good in the papers. where else can you read about the King giving karate lessons to Liza Minnelli in a hotel room while Chubby Checker and porn star Linda Lovelace looked on? Jerry Schilling first met Elvis in 1954, went to work for him in the mid-Sixties, even lived at Graceland and stayed close to him right through until 1976.

By the time I read the epilogue, detailing Jerry's undying devotion for the King's legacy, I got teary-eyed. There were a handful of memoirs that highlighted friendships of famous people, and this was one of them. He ha a lost of respect for Elvis, and it appears that Elvis respected him as Jerry went outside the Elvis circle and obtained other jobs over the years. Elvis worked incredibly hard to achieve what he did, and if my book accomplishes anything, I want it to remind people what a revolutionary force he was in kicking down barriers - between different kinds of music and between people of different races - and in opening up a whole new world of possibilities for us with the gift of rock and roll. Elvis would have some wild desire but the Colonel might not like them because they would not bring in a lot of money or might be too difficult (egs.He lived with his music outside of the house - he didn't need to hear it while he was trying to relax in his own basement. Ona 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 teenage whose first record, "That's All Right," had just debuted on Memphis radio.