Efe Eme will publish the 170-page Spanish book 'From Elvis in Memphis: La Ultima Gran Evasión de Elvis' ('From Elvis in Memphis: The Last Great Escape of Elvis') on May 14, 2025.
Description: No matter how much time passes, Elvis remains the King, no doubt about it! However, his career had ups and downs. In this book, Eduardo Izquierdo, an expert and scholar of Elvis’s life and work, delves into the details surrounding the creation and recording of the legendary ‘From Elvis in Memphis’. This is the album. with which, in 1969, after years of declining popularity, he returned to the forefront, delivering a masterpiece considered one of the peaks of his artistic maturity.
This was an Elvis who was confident, making decisions, showcasing his talent, and eager to reclaim his throne. He expressed his unconditional love for music and songs through an album that remains timeless. Eduardo Izquierdo meticulously analyzes every aspect, sketching a portrait of the figures who surrounded Elvis during the recording, from the essential producer Chips Moman, who played a key role in helping him feel free and creative, to Priscilla, his wife, as well as the friends who helped him navigate difficult choices. And, of course, the cunning Colonel Parker and his looming shadow.
In ‘From Elvis in Memphis: The Last Great Escape of Elvis’, Eduardo Izquierdo, with a delightful conversational style and deep knowledge of the facts, demonstrates that this album was not just the King’s break from his immediate past, it also featured the immortal ‘In the Ghetto’.
Taking a song-by-song approach and exploring every detail, he immerses the reader in the nocturnal recording sessions and the countless anecdotes that accompanied its creation, including his immediate residencies in Las Vegas. Most importantly, Izquierdo confirms that this is the work that brought him back to the highest place, the place that always belonged to him and that he should never have left.
Graceland was recently contacted by FOX 5 NY about footage that was discovered in their archives during their work on a story about Elvis Presley’s 90th birthday. The rare, candid footage from 1956 shows Elvis recording a new ending for his first film, 'Love Me Tender', in New York City on Oct. 29, 1956 - as well as footage of him signing autographs for fans.
The footage will now be showcased in the Hollywood section of Elvis: The Entertainer Career Museum at Elvis Presley’s Graceland in Memphis.
Fox News posted: "Deep within the FOX archives, likely unnoticed for decades, a rare candid clip of Elvis Presley emerged when FOX 5’s managing editor was on the hunt for video to commemorate the King on what would be his 90th birthday. The unique two-minute video shows Elvis recording a new ending for his first film, "Love Me Tender," in New York City on Oct. 29, 1956.
Elvis is seen interacting with the director and fans outside Junco Studios, an old carriage house on East 69th Street, a behind-the-scenes moment previously unknown to Graceland's archives. @visitgraceland now plans to display the footage to help tell Elvis's story to the throngs who continue to visit his former home."
(Source: Nigel Patterson / Amazon / Graceland)