On a lazy Sunday in 1954 twelve-year-old Jerry Schilling wandered into a Memphis touch
football game only to discover that his team was quarterbacked by a nineteen-year-old Elvis
Presley the local teenager whose first record That's All Right had just debuted on Memphis
radio. The two became fast friends even as Elvis turned into the world's biggest star. In 1964
Elvis invited Jerry to work for him as part of his Memphis Mafia and Jerry soon found himself
living with Elvis full-time in a Bel Air mansion and later in his own room at Graceland. Over
the next thirteen years Jerry would work for Elvis in various capacities - from bodyguard to
photo double to co-executive producer on a karate film. But more than anything else he was
Elvis's close friend and confidant: Elvis trusted Jerry with protecting his life when he
received death threats he asked Jerry to drive him and Priscilla to the hospital the day Lisa
Marie was born and to accompany him during the famous lost weekend when he traveled to meet
President Nixon at the White House. Me and a Guy Named Elvis looks at Presley from a friend's
perspective offering readers the man rather than the icon - including insights into the
creative frustrations that lead to Elvis's abuse of prescription medicine and his tragic death.
Jerry offers never-before-told stories about life inside Elvis's inner circle and an emotional
recounting of the great times hard times and unique times he and Elvis shared. These vivid
memories will be priceless to Elvis's millions of fans and the compelling story will fascinate
an even wider audience.
