Me and a Guy Named Elvis: My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley
- ISBN-10
- 1592403050
- ISBN-13
- 9781592403059
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 361
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Authors
- Chuck Crisafulli, Jerry Schilling
Description
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. Me and a Guy Named Elvis looks at Presley from a friend's perspective, offering readers the man rather than the icon. Spanning Elvis's meteoric rise to those later troubled years, Jerry's story offers never-before-told stories about life inside Elvis's inner circle, and an insightful, emotional recounting of the great times, hard times, and unique times he and Elvis shared.
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