Elvis Album

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful book! MUST HAVE FOR ANY TRUE FAN!
Review: Elvis Album is an over-sized, beautiful book. It's scrapbook style- photos of newspaper clippings with wonderful photos. It's a great book to have on your coffee table. I can't stress how well the book is put together. It's awesome!

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful book! MUST HAVE FOR ANY TRUE FAN!
Review: Elvis Album is an over-sized, beautiful book. It's scrapbook style- photos of newspaper clippings with wonderful photos. It's a great book to have on your coffee table. I can't stress how well the book is put together. It's awesome!

Rating:
Summary: Absolutely Priceless
Review: This oversized [27 cm x 32 cm] scrap-book style collection of Elvis memories is priceless, and to get a copy for the price asked by Amazon is unbelievable.

The 316 pages are full of photographs dating from his childhood in Tupelo and Memphis. There are numerous shots of Elvis promotions [bath products, Elvis dolls, coffee mugs, plates - you name it] newspaper articles, magazine and EP/LP and singles covers, movie posters, christmas cards, fan club cards ... etc, etc.

What caught my eye in particular was a copy of an article on page 84 from "The Ottawa Evening Journal" dated April 3, 1957 which covered the ludicrous decision by the authorities at Notre Dame Convent - an all-girl's school - to force their students to stay away from the Elvis concert.

The girls had to sign a note stating "I promise that I shall not part in the reception accorded Elvis Presley and I shall not be present at the program presented by him at the Auditorium on Wednesday, April 3, 1957."

Well, it just so happened that I had two tickets to the concert and my girlfriend was a student at the convent. I went into the school, plucked her out of the class [the older ones were being held there longer than usual to make SURE they didn't attend] and off we went.

Of course, she was suspended and I was persona non grata with her folks for awhile. But what a night! One of only three concerts Elvis ever performed outside the U.S. [the others were in Toronto and Vancouver].

When I go through this magnificent volume memories come flooding back of a happier, innocent time [irrespective of the idiots who tried their darndest to ban anything and everything associated with "the Devil's music."

This beautifully bound book first published in 1991 by Publications International, Ltd., with its maroon cover and glossy beige "scrapbook" pages is a must for any fan of The King. I can't recommend it highly enough.