Elvis and the Memphis Mafia

Description

Cover; Photographs; Title page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 The Family; 2 Tupelo; 3 Memphis; 4 Marty; 5 Star Time; 6 The "Opry" and the "Hayride"; 7 The Colonel; 8 1956--Runaway Success; 9 Hollywood; 10 Movie Stars and Everything; 11 Lamar; 12 Graceland; 13 "Damn'd to Everlasting Fame!"; 14 Gladys; 15 The Tilt; 16 Germany; 17 Fun and Frauleins; 18 Home; 19 Manchild in the Promised Land; 20 Junior; 21 Bobby; 22 Hack Time; 23 Scatter; 24 Changes; 25 Priscilla; 26 "All Guns Poolside!"; 27 The Female Elvis; 28 Million-Dollar Shroud: The Movies and the Music.;A monumental oral biography filled with raucous joy, aching loss and terrible poignancy, Elvis Aaron Presley 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 handpicked group of gatekeepers and confidants and Lamar.