Elvis and the Memphis Mafia - Softcover

Nash, Alanna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845131282 ISBN 13: 9781845131289

Publisher: Aurum Press, 2005

Synopsis

A monumental oral biography filled with raucous joy, aching loss and terrible poignancy, Elvis & the Memphis Mafia is the first book to capture the King – the man and the phenomenon – in his full complexity. Through revealing interviews with three of Elvis’s closest friends, who were also his protectors and rescuers, Nash achieves the first true mapping of Elvis’s psyche.

Billy Smith – Elvis’s first cousin and the person he reputedly loved most after his own mother – Marty Lacker – best man at his wedding and foreman of the ‘Memphis Mafia’, the King’s handpicked group of gatekeepers and confidants – and Lamar Fike – the touring crew member who accompanied him into the Army – were with Elvis from his teens to his final days and provide unique access to the greatest of all rock and roll legends. The revelations cut through every aspect of Elvis’s life, from the childhood seeds of his drug dependency, through his fear for his mother’s life and his plan to change his identity, to his bizarre self-mutilation. No one who reads this symphonic blending of three proud, ribald, sad and ultimately wistful voices can fail to be profoundly moved.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Elvis Aaron Presley is as close as anybody's gotten to a psychological profile of Elvis, based on family information from Billy Smith, Elvis's first cousin, who lived with him throughout his life. The book also examines the larger human aspects of an unparalleled social phenomenon. Twenty years after Elvis's death, he still mystifies and thrills.

About the Author:

Alanna Nash is also ‘responsible for the best Elvis book to date (Uncut magazine): Elvis Presley: Revelations from the Memphis Mafia.  A feature writer for the New York Times, she lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aurum Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1845131282
• ISBN 13: 9781845131289
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 806