''Elvis The King''

[Yvonne]

A nice cover

Cover Art Baby Let's Play House



This is the cover-art for Alanah Nash' upcoming 608 pages book entitled "Baby, Let's Play House - Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him" which is due for release January 5, 2010

(ISBN: 9780061699849; ISBN10: 0061699845).

Source: Elvis Club Berlin / Updated: Sep 24, 2009
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[Yvonne]

New Alanna Nash book update #1:

Alanna Nash's new book, Baby, Let's Play House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him, is due out the US in early January 2010. Alanna has told EIN that she is currently making her final corrections to the manuscript and clarified that the alternate listing on Amazon UK (Elvis and His Women, 320 pages) was based on a preliminary title for the release and before the final number of pages was known. The actual page number is a mammoth 704 pages!

Alanna also had this to say about Baby, Let's Play House:

"Even after writing three previous Elvis-related books, I am still astonished by the depth of his story. And in telling it largely through the eyes of the women who knew and loved him, platonically as well as romantically, it nearly takes on a different shape and tone. I have been amazed by that, and gotten to know him better."

Baby, Let's Play House can be pre-ordered from Amazon:

EIN will publish a review of Alanna's eagerly awaited new book in the coming weeks.

(News, Source: Alanna Nash)
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[vinylman]

..LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS BOOK....HAVE WE A ADDRESS WHERE I CAN BUY DIRECT FROM ALANNA...........
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[Yvonne]

[bluey]

Got to wait until March
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[Yvonne]

I know it's not the easiest place to order from, but ElvisMatters Shop will have it for sale in January... and no doubt it'll be available from other sources closer to home about then too
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[Yvonne]

Interview (Part 1)

Noted Elvis author, Alanna Nash, talks to EIN about her latest book, Baby, Let's Play House Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him:



In the first part of her absorbing interview with EIN, among other things Alanna talks about:

her family life
how she became a writer
the importance of both Gladys Presley and Jesse Garon Presley in Elvis' life
Elvis' early relationships with women
how 'complicated grief' affected Elvis
the 'psycho-sexual' Elvis
the beginning of Elvis' demise and how it affected his relationships with the opposite sex

http://www.elvisinfonet.com/interview_nash_2009.htm
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[Yvonne]

Alanna Nash talks to EIN (Part 2):

Today we publish the penultimate part of our absorbing interview with celebrated author, Alanna Nash. Alanna's latest book, Baby, Let's Play House Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him (read book review), is released in the US tomorrow.

In the second part of her interview with EIN, Alanna talks about:

* ... the four most important women in Elvis' life
* ... the type of woman Elvis liked
* ... some of the women in Elvis' life most fans have not heard of
* ... Elvis' relationships with Cher, Nancy Sinatra, Petula Clark, Tanya Tucker and the late Karen Carpenter
* ... Joyce Bova - did she overstate her relationship with Elvis?
* ... did Elvis have a Madonna complex?
* ... the claim that Elvis did not spend much time with Lisa Marie!
* ... the two categories Elvis placed women into
* ... the last of the 14 year old girls Elvis mentored
* ... the "inner Elvis" and its importance to the Elvis story
* ... Jessie Garon and Elvis
* ... the day Elvis died........an important revelation!

Read Alanna's interview here

http://www.elvisinfonet.com/interview_nash_2009_part2.htm

Source EIN
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[Yvonne]

Praise for Baby, Let's Play House Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him:

While not everyone has realised the important themes in Alanna Nash's fascinating new book, there continues to be widespread praise for the book in the mainstream press:

“Alanna Nash’s long look at Elvis’ bizarre history with women...collect[s] all the madness, badness and sadness of the Elvis myth in one exhaustive and embarrassingly tempting volume.” — New York Times

“In this astounding look at the King’s unstoppable pursuit of women from his elementary school days until his untimely death at 42, hundreds of girls and women pass through the revolving doors of Elvis’ love life.” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“An exhaustive and penetrating work that functions as an intimate personal profile, a family study and a psychosexual investigation of one of the 20th century’s true cultural icons.” — Memphis Commercial Appeal

“A major new contribution to Presley lore...[Alanna Nash’s] focus on Presley’s relationships with women takes us on a long and often fascinating journey...It’s a welcome and well-crafted addition to our understanding of his strange, triumphant and tragic life.” — The Globe and Mail

“The most comprehensive work ever on how the women in Presley’s life…influenced him and his music.” — New York Newsday

“Un-put-downabble.” — Jezebel.com
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[Yvonne]

Video online - Alanna Nash talks about her new book (and more!!):

Louisville Life meets Alanna Nash, a freelance writer for USA Weekend, Entertainment Weekly and The New York Times.

Nash has also authored numerous books, including Golden Girl, which was the basis for the film Up Close and Personal, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert Redford.

Her newest book, Baby, Let’s Play House, is one of a series of books she has written about Elvis Presley.

Watch the video here

http://www.ket.org/cgi-bin/fw_louisvillelife.exe/db/ket/dmps/Programs?id=LOUL0412

Read EIN's review of "Baby, Let's Play House Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him"

http://www.elvisinfonet.com/bookreview_nash_2010.htm
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[Yvonne]

Baby, Let's Play House #1 on Davis-Kidd Bestselling books list:

Earlier this week, Alanna Nash's revealing new Elvis release, Baby, Let's Play House Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him, hit #1 on the Davis-Kidd Bestselling Books Listing.

Davis-Kidd is one of America's biggest independent book sellers in the southern states with outlets in Memphis and Nashville.

Of the three Elvis books released in Dec-Jan, Baby, Let's Play House is also the best selling on Amazon. The other two releases are the memoirs by Dr. Nick and George Klein.

(News, Source: The Tennesean)
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[Yvonne]

A love affair that became a fatal attraction – celebrity obsession and the selling of fantasies:

If the greatest love affair celebrities have is with their fans, Elvis Presley was our Don Juan.

Although entertainers inspired adulation long before, and long after The King's arrival, it was the feral attraction to Presley -- who would have turned 75 today -- that forever changed the way we consume entertainment.

"He wasn't just a famous musician. He ultimately became a commodity: a brand, a symbol and a vehicle, not only for selling products but also for selling fantasies," says sociologist Patricia Leavy, an associate professor at Stonehill College in Massachusetts. "Elvis was really the beginning of consumer culture as we experience it now."

A sequin-swaddled star, Presley set the course for an entire industry. Even now, 32 years after his death, the entertainer's influence is evident in everything from the border-crossing music of Eminem to the gyroscopic invitation of Britney Spears' hips. Forbes consistently ranks the singer among the top-earning dead celebrities, with his 2009 income swelling to $55 million US. That fortune is only expected to grow with this year's birthday exhibits and a new Viva Elvis! Cirque du Soleil show opening in Las Vegas.

"He's probably the most important, influential figure in all of popular music," says biographer Alanna Nash, author of the new book Baby Let's Play House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him. "Nobody was prepared for the level of fame to which he ascended. He literally couldn't go out without being mobbed. I think the only time he was ever truly happy was when he was on stage and felt that unconditional love."
The initial romance between the artist and his fans, however, devolved into a fatal attraction for a self-destructive star in decline, a seemingly different man altogether, who history would mockingly remember as "Fat Elvis."

"Elvis rolled out the blueprint for a lot of the behaviour that modern-day rockers take for granted: excessive women and substance abuse," says Nash. "But he would hate to think that was his legacy."

The morbid fascination with Presley's decay set a tone for tabloid stories about celebrities that endures to this day. Fortunately for the singer, planting the seeds of schadenfreude meant he didn't experience the full ugliness of its outgrowth. The sexual dalliances laid bare in Baby Let's Play House, for example, are enough to make Tiger Woods' indiscretions look like fodder for Seventeen magazine.

Lest we forget that, among countless other improprieties, Presley began courting future wife Priscilla when he was 24 and she was 14. But, save for conservative fearmongering over his swivelling midsection, Presley's tawdrier exploits went largely unreported.

"I suspect there's a lot of stuff Elvis did that we don't know about," says Robert Thompson, one of North America's foremost experts on popular culture. "And even if the press were aware of the more unsavoury stories, they were often reluctant to cover them; look at how they gave [U. S. president John F.] Kennedy a pass."

Although the passion still flourishes, it's an informed love that recognizes Presley as a complete person -- both flaws and fortes -- and as a foundational piece in a much bigger picture.

"Elvis Presley was the beginning of a new era in celebrity culture and obsession, which manifested itself in what now seem like charming, innocent ways," says Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University. "Michael Jackson represents the end of that chapter, with it becoming totally toxic and ultimately deadly."

(Book Review, Source: Misty Harris, Canwest News Service/The Vancouver Sun)

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Tomorrow on EIN: The final part of EIN's absorbing interview with noted author, Alanna Nash, author of the intriguing and controversial book, Baby, Let's Play House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him.

In Part 3 of her interview, Alanna talks candidly about many fascinating issues including:

the controversy about Baby, Let's Play House
Elvis and physical force against women in his life
Elvis' psychological issues
Elvis and relationships
the Gladys Presley letter to Parchment Prison
why Elvis acquiesced to the Colonel
Elvis' mischievous side

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Alanna Nash podcast links: As more fans discover one of the best Elvis books to be released in years, Baby, Let’s Play House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him, author Alanna Nash has been on the media trail and here are a selection of podcasts involving Alanna

KMOX, St. Louis MO (John Carney)

http://www.kmox.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=4294788%20

WRVC, Huntington WV (Jean Dean)

http://wrvc.podomatic.com/entry/eg/2010-01-11T04_47_28-08_00%20

KMED, Medford OR (Bill Meyer)

http://www.kmed.com/pages/podcast_archives?app=podcast&podcastID=389%20
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[Yvonne]

Alanna Nash talks to EIN (Part 3)



In the final part of her absorbing interview with EIN, author Alanna Nash talks candidly about many fascinating issues including:

* ... The controversy about her new book, Baby, Let's Play House
* ... Elvis and physical force against women in his life
* ... Elvis' psychological issues
* ... Elvis and relationships
* ... The Gladys Presley letter to Parchman Prison
* ... Why Elvis acquiesced to the Colonel
* ... Elvis' mischievous side

Read the interview

http://www.elvisinfonet.com/interview_alanna_2010_part3.htm

Source EIN
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[Yvonne]

Baby Let's Play House in American media



From the Tennessean: Elvis Presley died in 1977. He was remarkable for many reasons, chief among them the fact that his music had altered the world's history and culture. Also, there was the oddity of his age: Presley was among the nation's few 42-year-old teenagers.

"He never really grew up, and he always resorted to teenage activity," said Alanna Nash, whose Baby, Let's Play House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him is a 609-page exploration of how Presley's lack of emotional maturity impacted his art and his life.

"He wanted to be around 14-year-old girls, because he felt like a 15- to 17-year-old boy," Nash said. "With those girls, he wasn't challenged. He was idolized and he spoke their language. This is a man who ate burgers and fries his whole life, when he could have had anything. And he was terrified of full-grown women."

In Nash's book, Presley is often revealed as a frightened and immature person who appeared to all the world as a dashing rock 'n' roll lothario. Though Nash doesn't spare intimate details of his love relationships, the end result is as troubling as it is titillating.

"I knew some people would find this book very explosive," she said. "In many ways, it's contradictory to the way the faithful like to view him. And if you just open it up to certain passages instead of reading all the way through, it may seem sensational. But when people read it with an open mind, I think they understand him better. I know I understand him better now. Mostly, I wanted people to understand his suffering."

Baby, Let's Play House makes clear that Presley didn't suffer in the opportunity department. He moved through scads of women in his 42 years. But the only truly adult relationship he seemed to have was with actress Ann-Margret, and the only love of his life was his mother, Gladys, who died when Presley was 22. Much of Nash's book finds Presley engaging with female fans who were much too young for respectability's sake.

In the late 1950s, agent-in-training Byron Raphael often procured girls for Presley, took them to his bedroom and ushered them out later. In the book, Raphael recalls finding Presley asleep in his underwear with three young girls in his arms, his own record playing in the background.

"With some of the younger ones, he'd be like the tooth fairy, slipping hundred-dollar bills in their schoolbooks," Raphael told Nash.

Still, the Presley in Nash's book doesn't come off as predatory so much as lost, as he seeks to protect and mold young girls into womanhood (as was the case with wife Priscilla Presley), all the while enjoying unhindered dalliances on the road.

"We hear about Priscilla as the love of his life, but I think there were many women who meant as much to him as Priscilla," Nash said. "But she's the only one who had his child. It's hard to imagine what she went through. At 14, she meets him and it's a whirlwind. At 16, he installs her at Graceland and then he's rarely there. He's in California, falling in love with Ann-Margret and Priscilla is reading about that in movie magazines. He's denying constantly that he's involved with other people, yet he's hitting on everybody he sees, and Priscilla is a child who doesn't know whether Elvis will fulfill his commitment to marry her. He wanted to mold her, but not to fulfill that commitment. But he also wanted a family."

Nash has written books about Presley's confidants (Elvis and the Memphis Mafia) and about his manager (The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley), but the fact-checking and study hasn't dimmed her appreciation for the singer. Baby, Let's Play House is a previously unopened window into Presley's pain, his humor and his appeal.

"He had the looks for two and the talent for two," Nash said of Presley, whose twin brother died at birth. "In many ways, he led a tabloid life. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. . . . Elvis is where we got that. He revered women, and he craved their attention and their approval. But he never found the relationship he wanted, and he couldn't allow himself to settle down."

http://shop.elvismatters.com/index.php?pagina=info&parent_id=2753&product_id=3267

Published: februari 16th 2010 03:28 PM.
Source: The Tennessean / Published by: ElvisMatters - Peter Verbruggen .
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[Yvonne]

And for the guys ...

Baby, Let's Play House ...



We found another cover of the book by Alanna Nash that will be re-published in March

Source: Elvis Club Berlin / Updated: Mar 8, 2010
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