“Leave aside what you’ve previously read, and this much-needed book will unbend your mind. I’ll fill in many gaps regarding an incredibly close friendship and finally tell the truth about how it ended.”

 ~Andrew Hearn, editor and publisher
Essential Elvis UK magazine

“. . . Elvis’ doctor sweeps away the thick cobwebs surrounding Presley’s death – thereby producing an intimate and clear picture of the final hours that have so mystified and fascinated the world. In many ways, this is THE insider account.”

~Peter Harry Brown and Pat H. Broeske,
Down at the End of Lonely Street: The  Life and Death of Elvis Presley

“He was great when he started, and he was still great when he died . . .

Man, he was something.”                                   

~Waylon Jennings, Songwriter and Entertainer

“It’s such a sad and tragic story: Elvis seemed to be a happy, generous, sweetheart of a guy in the early days. Then they get into his decline, and it starts becoming one of the saddest stories. It just breaks my heart . . .

~Clint Black, RCA Recording Artist

“I read it. I liked it. It’s better than Gone with the Wind.”

~Willie Nelson, Songwriter and Entertainer

“Elvis: By Those Who Knew Him Best takes the personal memories of nearly one hundred and fifty of his closest friends and associates – many speaking for the first time – and creates from them the definitive biography of this supremely talented but ultimately tragic legend.”

~Virgin Books

“A miracle of research.”

~Record Collector

“An insider’s oral history from dirt-poor Tupelo beginning through to the bloated, lonesome end.”

~Q

“There were times when he was very, very difficult. There was a lot of heartaches, and he exhibited a lot of self-destructive behavior which was very difficult for me, you know – watching someone I loved so much destroy himself.”                                           

~ Linda Thompson, Elvis’ girl