ISBN: 9798315558682"The Million Dollar Quartet And The Challenges Of Oral Testimony" heißt ein 72 Seiten starkes und von Steven K. Rogstad verfasstes Taschenbuch, welches am 22.05.2025 erschienen ist.
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"It started when Elvis Presley unexpectedly walked into the recording studio at Sun Records in Memphis and sat down on a bench in front of a piano, playing and singing “Blueberry Hill.”
He caught the attention of his friends Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash, who also happened to be in the room and began harmonizing with him on a few gospel songs. Then Jerry Lee Lewis appeared and joined the trio, adding his high vocals to more songs Elvis was in the mood to sing. Perkins would later describe the group as “scooting around the piano” with his band “kinda knocking along.”
As Presley played the piano and sang lead for the quartet, a technician eventually turned on a taping machine, while someone else called a local newspaper for a reporter and a photographer to capture the event for posterity. A few hours later the impromptu jam session was over and the group went their separate ways. But a few photographs had been taken and numerous songs had been recorded. It would be the only time the four men would ever sing together as a quartet. “It could have happened only at Sun Records,” one music historian has determined, “and probably only in Memphis….”
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ISBN: 8495749777Von Eduardo Izquierdo erscheint am 14.05.2025 das 170 Seiten starke spanische Buch "From Elvis In Memphis - La Última Gran Evasión De Elvis"
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"Egal, wie viel Zeit vergeht, Elvis ist immer noch der King.Daran darf niemand zweifeln.Weder in der Rock- noch in der Popmusik noch sonst wo.Doch während seiner Karriere gab es nicht nur gute Zeiten. In diesem Buch beleuchtet Eduardo Izquierdo, ein profunder Kenner seiner Person und seines Werks, die Vorgänge rund um die Entstehung und Aufnahme des legendären Albums "From Elvis in Memphis". Das Album, mit dem er 1969, nach einigen Jahren abnehmender Popularität, mit einem Meisterwerk, das als Höhepunkt seiner Reife gilt, an die vorderste Front zurückkehrte.
Das war ein selbstbewusster Elvis, der Entscheidungen traf, Talente verschwendete und darauf brannte, wieder zu regieren, der seine bedingungslose Liebe zur Musik und zu den Songs in einem Album zeigte, für das keine Zeit vergeht. All dies wird von Eduardo Izquierdo analysiert, der auf subtile Art und Weise die Personen porträtiert, die Elvis während der Aufnahmen umgaben, vom unverzichtbaren Produzenten Chips Moman (der ihm half, sich frei und kreativ zu fühlen) bis zu Priscilla (seiner Frau), nicht zu vergessen einige der Freunde, die ihm halfen, die schwierigen Entscheidungen zu treffen. Und, natürlich, der hinterhältige Colonel Parker und sein langer Schatten.
In "From Elvis In Memphis - La Última Gran Evasión De Elvis", Eduardo Izquierdo, zeigt mit einer herrlichen Umgangssprache und einer großen Beherrschung der Fakten, dass dieses Album nicht nur der Bruch des Kings mit seiner unmittelbaren Vergangenheit war und das unsterbliche „In the ghetto“ beinhaltet. Er geht Song für Song und bis ins kleinste Detail auf die nächtlichen Aufnahmesessions und die tausend Anekdoten ein, die die Entstehung des Albums und die unmittelbaren „Residencies“ in Las Vegas begleiteten. Und, was am wichtigsten ist, er bestätigt, dass dies das Werk ist, das ihn an den höchsten Platz zurückgebracht hat, den Platz, den er immer verdient hat und nie hätte verlassen dürfen." (Übersetzung: Deepl.Com)
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Unter dem Titel "Elvis - The King Of The Rings: Volume 1" veröffentlicht Paul Belard eine Zweitausgabe des gleichnamigen Buches (VÖ: 2021) mit anderem Cover.
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"lvis liked expensive things: cars, motorcycles, clothes, and jewelry. His jewels befitted a king. He wore sumptuous pendants hung on heavy gold chains; huge and lavish rings set with rubies, sapphires, lapis lazuli, and emeralds; bracelets of gold and precious gems. Like Elvis himself, they were at times dazzlingly tasteful and beautiful, and at other times flashy and ostentatious. Occasionally, he would design the jewels himself, such as the famous TCB - Taking Care of Business - pendant and ring.
He loved to give his possessions away to people close to him, as well as to complete strangers. The value of the item was of no concern to him. An expensive horseshoe ring was designed by Memphis jeweller Lowell Hays, specifically for Elvis to wear on stage during his televised Aloha from Hawaii performance in 1973. Elvis gave the ring away a few years later. It eventually sold at auction in 2017 for $204,800."
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ISBN: 9798307242728Paul Belard veröffentlichte am 26.02.2025 sein nächstes Buch unter dem Titel "Elvis 58: November" und diese kündigt er wie folgt an:
"The second month of Elvis in Germany was spent at the U. S. Army Training Area in Grafenwohr, Bavaria, in winter maneuvers. Grafenwöhr is a town in the district Neustadt, in the region of the Upper Palatinate in eastern Bavaria, Germany.
Effective on November 27, 1958, Elvis was promoted to Private First Class. This rank was symbolized by one chevron on each sleeve."
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ISBN: 9798309093687 Dieser Tage erschien Volume 2 in der Buch-Reihe "Elvis: October 1958" von Paul Belard, welches 222 Seiten hat und mit folgenden Worten angekündigt wird:
"When all his soldier’s duties were completed, Elvis got a three-day leave and joined his father, his grandmother, Red West and Lamar Fike at the Ritters Park Hotel in Bad Homburg.
Being Elvis, he started to date as soon as he arrived in Germany. This time, it was Margit Buergin, a typist. They saw each other for a few months.
At the end of the month, Elvis and his dependents left this hotel for a health spa located in Bad Nauheim, the Hotel Grunewald."
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Diskutiert diesen Artikel im Forum (1 Antworten).Elvis UK - Compact: Volume 2 - The Ultimate Guide To Elvis Presley´s British CD Releases 1983 - 2005
Volume 2 aus der "Elvis UK"-Reihe mit dem Untertitel "The Ultimate Guide To Elvis Presley´s British CD Releases 1983 - 2005" ist in der Ankündigung und wird u. a. mit folgenden Worten angekündigt:
"Volume 2 opens with CD 170 and concludes with CD 422. As with Volume 1, apart from minor changes to the layout and revised cover artwork, the print copy edition will contain exactly the same content as the downloadable, digital flip book version (entitled Elvis UK3 The Ultimate Guide To Elvis Presley’s British CD Releases 1983-2005), first issued in early 2021. Nothing has been added; nothing omitted.
This trilogy of books represents the first major attempt by anyone to chronicle in exhaustive and painstaking detail the rise of Elvis’s compact disc releases from 1983 onwards – cross-referenced, where relevant, with vinyl versions. And while focused on UK releases, there is a huge amount of overlap with other territories – especially Europe - which makes it of major interest to Elvis collectors throughout the world. "
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Von David Trotter erscheint mit dem Hinweis, dass er Zugriff auf das Archiv des "Elvis Is King"-Fan Clubs hatte, das Buch "200 Elvis Concerts - By The Fans, For The Fans" und dieses wird wie folgt angekündigt:
"A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favourite part of the business - is live concerts”. - Elvis Presley -September 4th 1972.
During the formative years of my Elvis Is King fan club (Founded in 1974), personal friends and fans were traveling across the USA, following Elvis on tour, or attending multiple shows during his Las Vegas Engagements and Lake Tahoe appearances.
They would lovingly and dedicatedly send reports, reviews, and accounts of their adventures seeing Elvis on stage, at hotels, airports or in transport “as it happened”. These thrilling times, linking us to Elvis in a very unique way, were typed up and mailed to me to be shared with members within the pages of my Monthly Magazine / Newsletter.
In celebration of my Fan Club’s 50th Anniversary in 2024, these incredible memories - cherished within the Archives - are shared here collectively for the first time in over five decades.
They are for those old enough to I remember the “glory days”. They are here for the new fans discovering ELVIS. They are here for the generations yet to come, who will find ELVIS long after we all have left the world behind. So “Sit Back and leave the driving to us” as Elvis would often say.
Take a deep breath as the lights dim, the Orchestra begins, and from the wings of the Hilton, and the waiting areas of Coliseum Hallways, as ELVIS comes back to you one last time. “For who knows when we’ll meet again this way?"
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