Elvis Aaron Presley: Revelations from the Memphis Mafia

Elvis Aaron Presley: Revelations from the Memphis Mafia by Nash, Alanna. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780060176198.

A monumental oral biography, Elvis Aaron Presley is the first book to capture Elvis Presley - the man and the phenomenon - in his full complexity. Elvis Aaron Presley is the product of more than five years of interviews with the three individuals who knew him best: Billy Smith - Elviss first cousin and the person Elvis reputedly loved most after his own mother; the man who slept at the foot of Elviss bed during his bouts of horrific nightmares; and, at the end, one of the few who continued to see the pop icon on a daily basis. Marty Lacker - the best man at Elviss wedding and foreman of the famed "Memphis Mafia," the handpicked group of gatekeepers and confidants who formed Presleys entourage. Lamar Fike - decades-long member of the "Memphis Mafia"; touring crew member; and the man who accompanied Elvis to his army posting in Germany. Together, these three were with Elvis from his teens to his last day on earth, and the story they have to tell - most of it never before on the record - is as complete a psychological portrait of the pop icon as were ever likely to get.