Elvis Meets the Beatles - The untold story of their entangled lives by Chris Hutchins and Peter Thomson. No one laughed more loudly than the King himself when the Beatles's manager Brian Epstein boasted, "My boys are going to be bigger than Elvis Presley." It was the early 1960s, and Presley, a living legend, appeared unassailable. Yet, in 1964, John, Paul, George and Ringo suddenly topped the American charts - and Beatlemania rolled the King in the greatest rock coup of all time. Chris Hutchins, then a music journalist in his early 20s, was at the eye of the hurricane as the Beatles swept all before them. As America turned on to the Beatles in a big way during their 1965 tour, Chris Hutchins used his extensive network of connections to mastermind the one-and-only rendezvous between the King and the pretenders who were seizing the throne. With co-author Peter Thompson, Hutchins draws on his own sources and unpublished personal archives, as well as FBI files and dossiers from the District Attorney's investigators in Memphis, to probe into the story in which the lives of Elvis Presley and the Beatles became dramatically entwined. They reveal the passions and the powerplay, the corruption and the conspiracies, the vendettas and the vanity behind pop culture's greatest phenomena.  In as new condition and priced at £7.00 (P/P Free)
	Elvis The Secret Files by John Parker. Relying on FBI files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, British journalist Parker here weaves an implausible foul-play theory around the death of Elvis Presley in 1977, yet the pace of Parker's style makes for entertaining reading. The familiar facts of Presley's late career--his misuse of prescription drugs, his dissipated and profligate lifestyle, the supposed perfidies of his manager, Colonel Parker (no relation of the author)--are presented against a backdrop of FBI surveillance and organized crime. In the early '70s, Presley was defrauded in a scheme involving the sublease of his personal aircraft--which would have placed him in debt for almost a million dollars--and the author suggests that Elvis was murdered by racketeers to keep him from revealing this scam. Of more interest, however, is Parker's depiction of the near-obsession of J. Edgar Hoover with Presley and his undue influence on American youth. In as new condition and priced at £6.00 (P/P Free)
	Elvis and Gladys - The Genesis of the King by Elaine Dundy Who on the planet doesn't know that Elvis Presley gave electrifying performances and enthralled millions? Who doesn't know that he was the King of Rock 'n' Roll? But who knows that the King himself lived in the thrall of one dominant person? This was Gladys Smith Presley, his protective, indulgent, beloved mother. Elvis and Gladys, one of the best researched and most acclaimed books on Elvis's early life, reconstructs the extraordinary role Gladys played in her son's formative years. The Boston Globe called this thoughtful, informative biography of one of popular music's most enduring stars "nothing less than the best Elvis book yet." Very good condition only £4.00 (P/P Free)