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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 90 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Elvis phenomenon has its roots in his birthplace where Presley began a musical journey that would take him from the wrong side of the tracks in Tupelo through Memphis to worldwide iconic status. Interviews, recordings, photographs and rare home movies reveal the influences that would inspire both his music and personality, capturing a portrait of America on the cusp of radical social change.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A visual introduction to the early years and musical debut of Elvis Presley describes his shy nature and childhood musical experiences before recording a song for his mother's birthday that prompted his discovery and launch into fame.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Almost the only indisputable fact about Colonel Tom Parker is that he was the manager of the greatest performer in popular music: Elvis Presley. His real name wasn't Tom Parker – indeed, he wasn't an American at all, but a Dutch immigrant called Andreas van Kujik. And he certainly wasn't a proper military colonel: he purchased his title from a man in Louisiana. But while the Colonel has long been acknowledged as something of a charlatan, this book...
Author
Series
Killing volume 12
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The King is dead. The Walrus is shot. The Greatest is no more. Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. These three icons changed not only the worlds of music, film, and sports, but the world itself. Their faces were known everywhere, in every nation, across every culture. And their stories became larger than life-until their lives spun out of control at the hands of those they most trusted. In Killing the Legends, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard...
Publisher
BMG Strategic Marketing Group
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Deluxe ed.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 440 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., ports. (some col.))
Language
English
Description
"When in June 1968 Elvis Presley made a television special to be aired in December of the same year, he accomplished two things. He saved his career, and he made the best music of his life"--Insert.
7) Priscilla
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland,...
8) Hounddog
Publisher
Distributed by Empire Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in rural Alabama in the late 1950s, Lewellen lives with her stern grandmother, Grammie, but spends most of her time with her much-adored Daddy in his dilapidated shack. Daddy's wild side is tempered by his beautiful but troubled girlfriend, Ellen, who has a mysterious history but calming influence on the lonely, young girl. Lewellen is deeply talented and finds comfort and safety, as well as a place to put her hurt and rage, in the music of Elvis...
10) Elvis
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (159 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the life and music of American icon Elvis Presley from the perspective of his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
14) Elvis
Publisher
Warner Brothers Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (159 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
Elvis Presley rises to fame in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Publisher
Tangiers Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Collector's ed.; standard format.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (63 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is a warm, moving and sensitive tribute to the King of rock n roll, and at the same time it is a comprehensive and detailed biography of his life. A life that been lived by no other performer before or since.
19) Elvis Presley
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
x, 178 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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