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"MUSIC GOT ME THROUGH ALL THE TOUGH TIMES IN MY LIFE."Born into rock 'n' roll royalty, Lisa Marie Presley has spent her entire life in the spotlight.After seeking shelter in doomed marriages to Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage, she has finally embraced Elvis Presley's legacy and launched a career as a pop singer.Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll reveals the truth about Lisa's triumphs and struggles and her constant battle to step from The King's enormous shadow. ... Read more

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The title says it all.
The As I said above,the title says it all. The author did no justice to Lisa or to Michael. I'm sure Lisa would hate it, if she'd read it. There's one thing that I value as very important in a book (besides being well written), is the care the author has with the dates that things happened and the care to be truthful with the facts( specially if is a Biography, even if it's unauthorized). I didn't like this book.

Interesting
This book is fairly old so it doesn't have some updated information of course but it is very interesting and a easy read.

LISA HAS ISSUES!
UNFORTUNATLY, THIS READS LIKE A TABILOID.I WOULD LIKE TO READ HER STORY FROM HER PERSPECTIVE, BUT I DOUBT SHE WILL WRITE HER OWN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

Definitely a page turner...
I have always been one that was intrigued by Lisa Marie Presley.Probably because the media spotlight has always been on her and her story has always been so mysterious.The only thing that anyone new about her was what the media has said, and some parts of the book address that.The book takes it's information through interviews and other books (about the Presley's).The only thing that would be better is if LMP would write an autobiography, but maybe a few more scandals and mishaps later, she might.But it is definitely an entertaining read, showing a side of Lisa Marie that isn't seen that often.Definitely a page-turner. ... Read more

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The most important and revealing book ever on Elvis Presley - by his wife and daughter Twenty seven years after his death, Elvis Presley remains one of the world's most beloved and iconic figures. There has been an impressive array of bestselling Elvis books over the years, but there has never been a book like this. Now, for the first time, Elvis, the man, husband father and artist, is remembered intimately and honestly by his ex wife Priscilla, daughter Lisa Marie and other close family members. Including deeply personal documents and previously unseen family photographs, this lavishly illustrated book will also feature new interviews with family and friends by celebrated Rolling Stone founder, David Dalton. From personal diary entries to unearthed artefacts, Elvis by the Presleys is set to become a publishing phenomenon and will come closer than any other book in revealing the private dreams and truths of the extraordinary and complex man, who became the king of Rock and Roll. ... Read more

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Disappointing...not that much about Lisa Marie
I expected a full, comprehensive biography on Lisa Marie Presley. Instead it is a boring rehash of Elvis' life, with bits and pieces of Lisa Marie's life thrown in for good measure. About two-thirds of the book deals with Elvis' life; Lisa Marie seems more of an afterthought. I do not recommend this book for this reason. It's a poor biography of Elvis and an even poorer one of Lisa Marie. I got the impression this book was hastily churned out back in 1990 to blatantly make a quick buck off of Elvis Presley. It doesn't seem like the author interviewed anybody even remotely connected to Lisa Marie. It is the type of book available at supermarket checkout counters, next to The National Enquirer and other similar tabloids. It is not worth purchasing and I can see why it's unauthorized because EPE and/or Lisa Marie would never recommend such junk.

However--if you collect Elvis biographies, then it's an ok book to have in your collection.

I do hope that a more detailed, insightful biography on Lisa Marie will be written, because this one isn't even close. Lisa Marie deserves better. ... Read more

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Great Presley Collectable. Lisa Marie Presley All Grown up with a Baby on the Way!!also Great Article from Debbie Reynolds throws the book at Men. ... Read more

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Jane magazine with Lisa Marie Presley cover story ... Read more

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This is the official guidebook from Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, home of Elvis Presley. ... Read more

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Graceland Guidebook review
I am very pleased with the guidebook.It has lots of information with beautiful photos.I received the guidebook in a timely manner, with a nice note and gift from the seller.The guidebook is just what I need to put together a presentation on the life and times of Elvis, and his stately Graceland Mansion. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cage was born in Long Beach, California. His father, August Coppola, was a professor of literature, while Cage's mother, Joy Vogelsang, is a dancer and choreographer; Cage's parents divorced in 1976.Cage's mother is of German descent and his father is of Italian descent (his paternal great-grandparents were immigrants from Bernalda, Basilicata).His paternal grandparents were Carmine Coppola, a composer, and Italia Pennino, an actress. Through his father, Cage is the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, as well as the cousin of directors Roman Coppola and Sofia Coppola, late film producer Gian-Carlo Coppola, and actors Robert Carmine and Jason Schwartzman. Cage's two brothers are Christopher Coppola, a director; and Marc "The Cope" Coppola, a New York radio personality. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lisa MariePresley est une héritière américaine etchanteuse de rock. Elle est née le 1er février 1968 àMemphis aux États-Unis. Elle est la fille uniqued'Elvis Presley et de Priscilla Wagner Beaulieu. LisaMarie jouit d'une enfance très protectrice et trèschoyée dans la propriété de Graceland, propriété de sonpère. À la mort d'Elvis Presley, le 16 août 1977, ellen'est âgée que de neuf ans, mais devient l'héritièreexclusive de la fortune de son père, estimée à 220millions de dollars en 1977. Tous les ans, les seulsbénéfices des albums de son défunt père lui rapportenthuit millions de dollars. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Newsmakers 2004 Cumulation, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 2074 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Newsmakers provides timely and informative profiles of the world's most interesting people. Separate obituaries provide concise profiles of recently deceased newsmakers. ... Read more

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For the first time, the inside story of legendary entertainer Elvis Presley’s life as a husband, father, son, cousin, friend, spiritual seeker — Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley, and other family members, come together to memorialize our greatest star in this stunningly illustrated companion to a major television special and longer-form documentary.

Elvis by the Presleys is a uniquely fascinating treasure and serves as the essential companion to a major television special on CBS and, from Sony BMG, a longer-form documentary DVD and its related CD. Culled from hours of new family interviews conducted for the television special and DVD (much of it appearing exclusively in this book), enhanced with Elvis quotes, and illustrated with private family photographs and images of personal memorabilia from the archives of Graceland/Elvis Presley Enterprises, Elvis by the Presleys is an extraordinary document about an extraordinary figure.

In all, the book is the compelling result of a historic gathering of voices of those who not only witnessed from the wings Elvis Presley’s public life, but also knew the superstar out of the spotlight. His former wife Priscilla Presley, their daughter Lisa Marie Presley, his cousin Patsy Presley Geranen, Priscilla’s parents, and members of the combined and extended families sensitively and candidly share their intimate perspective on the real person, while at the same time celebrating one of America’s greatest stars.

As Priscilla Presley puts it in Elvis by the Presleys, “Who can think of Elvis without thinking of Graceland?” Here Graceland is seen as a teeming family retreat, where the kitchen was the center of operations; where tag football games were played in the yard; where folks drove golf carts up and down the hills; and where Elvis spent many of his happiest times.

Elvis by the Presleys reveals life at Graceland like never before. We witness the arc of his love affair with Priscilla; Elvis as a father to his adored Lisa Marie; his obsessions and passions; and the strength of his musical legacy, which continues unabated to this day. There are Christmas cards here, too; contracts and invoices; selections from Lisa Marie’s childhood scrapbook; and even a picture of the champagne bottle (signed) from Elvis and Priscilla’s wedding.

Here, now, is the tumultuous story of the life of a lovely yet complex man; a portrait of the career of a brilliantly accomplished yet often frustrated artist; an insider’s tale of enduring love, related with warmth and unguarded candor . . . and a story told the way only a family can tell it.


2-hour CBS special airs May 2005

4-hour Sony BMG documentary DVDand its companion CD in stores May 2005

The DVD is a longer-form presentation of the footage edited for the special. Both the special and the DVD are comprised of the family interviews, private home movies, performance footage and interviews, and photography — some of the material rare, some never before available to the public.

The CD of Elvis’s music features Elvis classics, hidden treasures, rarities and family favorites.Amazon.com Review
Think of Elvis by the Presleys as the ultimate souvenir guide from your tour of Graceland. The 256 pages are packed with family photos, reminisces, and still-life photography of Elvis's possessions. The book is also a companion volume to the multimdedia event that brings the personal side of Elvis to the masses from the recollections of just six family members: wife Priscilla; daughter Lisa Marie; cousin Patsy; along with Priscilla's mom, dad, and sister. Many of the words written here were not in the TV show but one assumes what will make this a keeper are the photos. Along with candid shots, there are stills of the home movies seen on the CBS special (and subsequent--and expanded--DVD), and the still life shots by Henry Leutwyler get your mind racing. Here one can dwell on Elvis's guitar and think of all the music that came out of it. You can spy his phonograph with the record that was on it when he died, his wallet, an autographed Bible, his first contract, a hand-drawn football play, even his FBI badge along with pristine views inside Graceland. Some shots seem like filler (a boot, "with the original mud," Lisa Marie's crayons), but the overall impression is you are viewing pieces from the Museum of Cool, circa 1970. Several of Pricilla's passages and some of the images allude to Elvis's dark side: the massive reference book on pills and three guns are shown (plus the TV Elvis shot) looking like items from a murder investigation. Ultimately, do we really learn anything new about Elvis? Perhaps not, but there are several segments where Priscilla (the main voice) draws us in with her emotional recollections. The book (and program) is never better than telling the courtship in Germany when a homesick solider found an older-than-her-age 9th grader. Elvis by the Presleys does not try to be compressive; it succeeds as a warmer, more heartfelt tribute to The King. --Doug Thomas ... Read more

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Everybody Loves Elvis
The Graceland staff is usually quite protective of the carefully manicured image they present of Elvis-for instance, you'll NEVER see pictures of "The King" taken after 1975, either at the Mansion, nor in any book authorized by EPE- the unspoken rule, supposedly is "'75 and holding", which refers not only to the cut-off year for the pictures of Elvis on display, but also refers to the number of pounds, "over 100" that Elvis is allowed to be, in any authorized product bearing his image. .... so, you won't see them in this Elvis Presley Enterprises produced book, either, since Priscilla Presley is at the helm. But, when it comes to being frank and forthright in the TEXT and interviews,to my delight, they let it all hang out.
For the first time, Lisa Marie Presley shares her memories of her father in great detail. From Elvis shooting out the T.V. screen (which she found, and still finds, "really funny!"), to the day he let her ride her horse INTO the HOUSE, much to Grandma "Dodger's" displeasure, to, sadly, the last thing he said to her, in the wee hours of the morning of August 16 (It was, BTW, "Go to bed", because he caught her still awake at almost 3:00am). Elvis' precious "Yeesa" answers every question and subject put to her, no surpise here, in her own brutally honest fashion.
The big surprise here is Priscilla- who opens up WAY more than she ever has, and I've seen alot of her interviews. She's always been known as "reserved" or "guarded" in the journalistic circuit- but not here! Maybe because her sister, daughter, and parents were there with her, and giving true, sometimes emotional takes on their memories of Elvis Presley, she decided to let it flow, too-- I don't know. Surprisingly, she even includes photo-copies of personal notes (from Graceland's archives)that she wrote to Elvis from Germany, once he was discharged from the Army, andback home in our Country(Elvis had saved them, all those years- awww)- and if you want to know what REALLY happened when Elvis asked her for a "trial separation", you'll find it here. I always thought that, in her auto-biography of life with the King of Rock, she took his request a little too calmly, in light of the fact that she was seven months pregnant with Lisa! She reveals here, first time ever, the tantrum she threw ("I went storming out of the room!").
The pictures are brilliant, and in the sharpest focus I've ever seen- I was tempted to cut some out, and frame them- but, logic prevailed. Some included are Elvis' real GOLD PLATED telephone, his personal wallet (along with its contents), and hand-written notes from him to members of the Memphis Mafia.
The ending is sad, pretty much like the real story is... Elvis' last known hand-written note, was not to any of his flesh and blood "men", who had almost all either been fired, written negative tell- alls,or had back-stabbed him in many other ways, but to his God: "Everybody is gone now..." he wrote, from his penthouse suite at the Hilton- in a note pilfered from his washroom trashcan by a maid and recently sold at auction. "I will try to sleep... I don't know who I can turn to anymore.. Be still, and know that I AM GOD.. Help me, oh Lord, to know the right thing..."
It was comforting (at least for me) to know that, fundamentally, Elvis never really changed. He started out as atwenty-one year old humble, lonely, God-fearing man who was trying his best to "do right"- and, he went out, twenty-one years later, the same way. This book is so intimate, it TRULY makes you feel close to Elvis- so close,in fact, you want to reach him. Reading towards the end, I found myself saying, "Your fans loved you, Elvis- WHY didn't you turn to us? We would have been there; we would have understood... because you always did the "right thing" by us; that's why we're STILL here..."

ONE OF THE BEST ELVIS FAMILY PICTURE ABLUMS!
Elvis by the Presleys, ONE OF THE BEST ELVIS FAMILY PICTURE ABLUMS!We have around 200 Elvis Presley Books and this is up in the Top Ten Elvis & Family books around.

Elivs By The Presleys
Its an enjoyable book.Good pictures, some of which I haven't seen. And also good to know the stories behind some of the pictures I have seen for years.

Elvis at twenty signing women's body parts!
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I watched Elvis on his many visits to Lubbock when he was just starting out.He did not just impact these two women.He was simply the most memorable human I have ever watched autograph [..............].I just wrote an article entitled Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Joe Ely and the Cotton Club.on www.virtualubbock.comI worked with Bob Neal, Elvis' first manager.

Much is being written about Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley long after their deaths. Here in Lubbock, there is a constant battle with Maria Elena Holly, Buddy's widow.Elvis' family come off as saints by comparison.

Johnny Hughes

By the Presley's
I've read Elvis and me probably about 7 times and I never get tired of listening to this love story. Elvis by the Presley's was very interesting and I finished it in one night. I am also going to buy the dvd version and encourage anyone interested in Elvis' family life to do the same. ... Read more