When in June 1968, clad in black leather, a nervous Elvis Presley made his television “Comeback Special”, Alan Fortas was one of the five friends asked to be on stage with him. Fortas ultimately spent nearly twelve years working for Elvis, having been asked to join his fraternity of bodyguards and close buddies that came to be known as “The Memphis Mafia” back in 1958. He lived, travelled and played hard with Elvis during that time, watching Elvis become increasingly disillusioned with the endless stream of movies he was forced to act in, saw him become increasingly reliant on drugs, and witnessed Elvis’s colourful sex life. The only other memoir of Elvis that can offer such genuine inside knowledge and intimacy is Elvis and the Memphis Mafia, by three other members of his bodyguard fraternity, which Uncut magazine acclaimed as “the best Elvis book written to date”, and which Aurum has already re-published and seen reprint four times. Now it re-issues Alan Fortas’ book, which has been out of print for over ten years. Written in collaboration with Elvis authority Alanna Nash, who also collaborated on Memphis Mafia and wrote the definitive biography of Elvis’s sinister manager, Colonel Tom Parker, it is a must for every Elvis fan.Alan Fortas subsequently worked as an investment banker in Memphis, and died in 1992. Alanna Nash is the acclaimed author of The Colonel, a biography of Colonel Tom Parker (also published by Aurum, 978 1 84513 025 1), and co-author of Elvis and the Memphis Mafia. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
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The inside story of legendary entertainer Elvis Presley's life as a husband, father, son, cousin, friend, spiritual seeker. As told by his Family.
On the road , Cliff and I were always curious about who else stayed in these VIP suites besides us , and the clerk at the Hawaiian Village front desk told us that Elvis's room had recently been used as a honeymoon suite by Mike Todd and ...
Sam knew that there was a huge audience of white kids hungry for the excitement they heard on the black R & B records, ... But back when Sam Phillips was spending long nights in that little storefront studio with groups of black ...
A comprehensive and in-depth tribute to the iconic rock-and-roll legend provides complete coverage of every aspect of his life, from his disadvantaged youth and meteoric rise to fame to his marriage to Priscilla and untimely death, in a ...
He grafts together snatches of film, music, books, newspapers, photos, posters, and cartoons, and amazes us with what America has been saying as it raises its late king--and also what this obsession with dead Elvis says about America itself ...
The New York Times bestseller that reveals the intimate story of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, told by the woman who lived it.
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Elvis Presley and Graceland were fixtures in Ginger Alden’s life; after all, she was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. But she had no idea that she would play a part in that enduring legacy.