Book info card Elvis '57: The Final Fifties Tours

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Elvis '57: The Final Fifties Tours
Hanson, Alan R. (2025)

Follow That Dream Records , Denmark
hardback , 504 pages , 30.6 x 25.3 x 4.1 cm , 2.928 kg
no ISBN

Category:	Concerts and television appearances
Language:	English
Description:	This edition by FTD has the same text as the 2007-edition by Alan Hanson, but with a few errors corrected, and includes additional photographs from Paul Grandlund's collection plus a vinyl 33rpm EP (track info). Describtion of the 2007-edition: In 1957, Elvis Aron Presley was still a one man phenomenon with six titles on the charts, one movie to his credit, and two movies soon to follow. But while he pursued his dream of becoming a Hollywood actor, the military draft threatened to shatter it along with his wildly successful rock 'n' roll career. Elvis couldn't resist the excitement he found performing on stage before swarms of shrieking teenage girls, and in that final year before he entered the U.S. Army, he went back on the road for three short tours. Elvis '57 recalls that magical year when the King played to audiences a quarter of a million people strong, and controversy and pandemonium accompanied him wherever he went. Alan Hanson takes us for a rollicking ride through eighteen major cities in the United States and Canada as he chronicles the most exciting tours of Elvis's career. In Chicago, Elvis wore his famed gold lame suit and thirteen girls fainted in an effort to reach him. In Vancouver, British Columbia, thousands left their seats and rushed the stage, forcing him to abruptly end the show. Drawing on first-hand accounts from the disc jockeys on the front lines of Elvis's exploding career and fans who attended the '57 concerts, Hanson sweeps you back to the year that forever changed the King of Rock 'n' Roll. Source: book back cover.
Review(s):	Review (of the 2007-edition) by Piers Beagley on The Elvis Information Network ... (June 2008)
	Review (of the 2007-edition) by Trevor Cajiao on Elvis History Blog ... (September 2007)
	Review (of the 2007-edition) by David Neale on Elvis History Blog ... (August 2007) (External reviews are copyright of the reviewer/website owner. Inclusion of a link does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.)
Interview(s):	Interview with the author (about "Elvis '57: The Final Fifties Tours") on The Elvis Information Network ... (2007) (External interviews are copyright of the interviewer/website owner.)
Source(s):	Cover, info and description : ElvisBooks