March 16 - Ray Walker

Elvis former backing vocalist Ray Walker celebrates his 92nd birthday, congratulations!

Walker is the last man standing from the famous Jordanaires who were essential during the first part of Elvis career. 

Effetto Elvis

Effetto Elvis (Laure Limongi): Due for publication on April 9 is this new Italian language book. The title translates as "The Elvis Effect" and the book description on Amazon translates as:

"Elvis Presley is the mutant god, the icon of a world, ours, oscillating between the sublime and the disastrous. Unifying and polemical, provocative and candid, a paradox that has become our function, our unknown. 

"Here, in 80 pages—intense, edgy, and rhythmic like a rock song—is all Elvis, all the Elvises: the good Southern boy, the "angel face," "Presley with the velvet lips," "the white man with the black voice," the affectionate son, the sexual demon, Elvis the soldier, Elvis in love, Elvis dressed in gold sequins, Elvis in the black leather jacket, the fringed jacket, "the first atomic singer," the Hollywood hunk, the emperor of Graceland, and the chubby Las Vegas attraction—the legend, the mysteries. 

"Tracing the stages of his life like the stations of a myth, from his birth in Tupelo to his mysterious end in Graceland, The Elvis Effect tells the story of a man who embodies the ideal enunciated by Andy Warhol, that of complete reproducibility: a man who still lives today, after his death, through the thousands of lookalikes who imitate him at various periods of his life."

(Source: UEPS / Elvis Book Discussion Group)