Me and a Guy Named Elvis: My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley

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You were with Elvis when he learned of the book from Sonny , Red and Dave he was upset and worried how this would affect his reputation. He is best friends with Priscilla, so we only get tiny fragments of her in the memoir and all of them are positive. stormed into the lounge, walked right up onstage, hoisted his cane like he was going clobber the guy and said, 'If you're going to do it, do it right. There was some other moments I liked in the book, how Schilling quit working for Elvis several times to pursue other interests, to become a film editor, actor, tour manager. But more than anything else he was Elvis’s close friend and confidant: Elvis trusted Jerry with protecting his life when he received death threats, he asked Jerry to drive him and Priscilla to the hospital the day Lisa Marie was born and to accompany him during the famous “lost weekend” when he traveled to meet President Nixon at the White House.

His music lives on, and, almost 30 years after his death, his life and achievements continue to have deep emotional impact on all of us.More than anything, this moving and elegantly told memoir resonates with the spirit of true friendship. They had always been supportive of Elvis, even welcoming him into their own inner circle of police officers. That's what I wanted to capture in my book, because the Elvis I knew was not a legend - he was a man. where else can you read about the King giving karate lessons to Liza Minnelli in a hotel room while Chubby Checker and porn star Linda Lovelace looked on? On a lazy Sunday in 1954, twelve-year-old Jerry Schilling wandered into a Memphis touch football game, only to discover that his team was quarterbacked by a nineteen-year-old Elvis Presley, the local teenager whose first record, "That’s All Right," had just debuted on Memphis radio.

I’m saying this because Jerry was always an odd one out and yet Elvis clearly valued their friendship VERY highly.Schilling goes to great lengths to sanitize Elvis's flaws and his own by glossing over many of the details about Elvis's infidelities, his immorality and his well-documented drug abuse. After reading the book, I must say that Jerry Schilling is, by far, one of the luckiest man on planet earth.