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

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I grew-up eating peanut butter and banana sandwiches and still cannot believe I didn’t have a fried one until Graceland -- the man was a genius! Your love of Elvis came out in every page thank you for writing a classy book and being such a good friend to Elvis and his family.

It is a captivating, well-written, and un-crucifying account of many historic moments that shows the real birth and evolution of Rock and Roll and how it bridged the racial divide.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 Pricilla 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. I don't read many books about Elvis as they are usually written by people who had never even met him or if they have want to scandalise him. It was when Elvis took the stage that the place just about exploded… As soon as Elvis started moving, the energy that came off that stage was even bigger than anything the crowd was throwing back at him… He handled the show like a real pro, working the crowd masterfully. He has touched my life along the periphery for decades -- sometimes as superficially as a costume appearance at Halloween or an impersonator in Las Vegas, but then later as the pop culture phenomena that was his only child’s marriage to the King of Pop or my must-do visit to his Graceland home on a cross-country road trip. I haven’t read any other biographies or memoirs about Elvis, but I’ve seen a bunch of documentaries and this book aligns well with what I know based on other sources which makes me trust in its content more.

What makes "Me and a Guy Named Elvis" most extraordinary is the deep level of love and friendship the two men shared. Only Jerry can tell us what it was like to be with Elvis at every stage of his life, and what it was like for his friends and family when Elvis was gone. Me and a Guy Named Elvis looks at Presley from a friend’s perspective, offering readers the man rather than the icon ― including insights into the creative frustrations that lead to Elvis’s abuse of prescription medicine and his tragic death. U mnogim recenzijama drugih Elvisovih knjiga, a posebno one Priscille Presley, pročitala sam da ga Schilling opisuje u malo boljem svijetlu od onoga kakav je zaista bio.Me and a Guy Named Elvis looks at Presley from a friend's perspective, offering readers the man rather than the icon - including insights into the creative frustrations that lead to Elvis's abuse of prescription medicine and his tragic death. Through the words of this book I grasped that Elvis began to loose his humanness because people talked to him like he was this super hero but he was just a guy that had major talent. Their entire world, upbringing almost - because they were all kids when they started hanging out - was about protecting Elvis. Jerry Schilling first met Elvis in 1954, went to work for him in the mid-Sixties, even lived at Graceland and stayed close to him right through until 1976.