The Elvis Encyclopedia: The Complete and Definitive Reference Book on the King of Rock & Roll [Paperback]

David E. Stanley (Author), Frank Coffey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1997

The Elvis Encyclopedia contains everything there is to know about Elvis's personal and professional life, presented in riveting detail. Painstakingly compiled by his own stepbrother, David Stanley, who lived with Elvis at Graceland for 17 years and traveled with him until Elvis's death in 1977, this ultimate resource book contains never-published photos and a chronology of Elvis's life. 250 photos, many in color.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: General Pub Group (July 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 157544061X
• ISBN-13: 978-1575440613
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 9.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,860,361 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money, March 17, 2004

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T. Brice (Lafayette, Georgia USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Elvis Encyclopedia: The Complete and Definitive Reference Book on the King of Rock & Roll (Paperback)

I bought this book a few years back and returned it to the store the very next day. It is full of errors. One of the most obvious is this...The author claims that Elvis' twin brother is buried at Graceland. Even the most casual fan knows that he is buried near Tupelo. I don't know what the problem is with David Stanley. He is incapable of telling the truth. Awhile back, he took part in a TV documentary, stating that Elvis committed suicide. His latest fabrication is really hilarious. According to Stanley, The Beatles knocked on Graceland's front door and asked to see Elvis. David and his mother, Dee, were decorating the Christmas tree and Dee refused to let them in because of their long hair.<G> The Beatles were only in Memphis on one occasion and that was in August, 1966, 4 months before Christmas.If you insist on lying, David, at the very least, do a little research so you can keep your lies consistent with historical facts.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars indispensable for elvis fans, August 26, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Elvis Encyclopedia: The Complete and Definitive Reference Book on the King of Rock & Roll (Paperback)

If you want to know everything about Elvis, then this is the book you need. It contains everything about his personal life, his music, his movies, his friends and family, his likes and dislikes and more.
It was compiled by his stepbrother David E. Stanley and it has a foreward by Lamar Fike, Elvis' best friend.
It also has an Elvis trivia quiz for the real fantics.
If you need to know those more obscure songs he sang, you'll find it in here.
Since this book was first published in '94, I can only spot two original albums missing from the "his music" section.
"For the asking" and "Tomorrow is a long" time were supposed to have been released in the early and late sixties respectively, but instead they were dropped in favour of soundtrack albums. A lot of the songs from these two albums were used as fillers on soundtrack albums of the sixties.
Now these two long lost albums have recently been released by RCA. So the only reason they're not mentioned in this book, is because they weren't commercially available at the time this book was published.
It does mention at the beginning of the music section "this anthology contains only records released commercially - no bootlegs or unauthorised material".
They released this book with an alternative front cover in '98 (in the uk anyway), and I'm assuming it's exactly the same. I might buy that book because I've looked at my book so many times, especially in the music section, that some of the pages have come out. This is probably due to flicking back and forth so much.
Buy this book! You won't believe the amount of info in it.