Aloha Elvis

On Elvis’s first visit to Hawai‘i in 1957, fans filled Honolulu Stadium for not one but two concert performances. That was the beginning of Elvis’s enduring relationship with Hawai‘i which included two additional benefit concerts, three films and several vacation stays. For Elvis fans and those interested in Hawai‘i's music history, Aloha Elvis describes Elvis’s love affair with the islands and includes over 100 photographs--some never before published--of Elvis and the people and places he encountered in Hawai‘i. Jerry Hopkins, a twenty-year veteran of Rolling Stone magazine, is the author of three other books about Elvis Presley: Elvis: A Biography (1971) and Elvis: The Final Years (1980); both international bestsellers long out of print and to be republished in an updated form in 2007 and Elvis in Hawai‘i (2004). His research material for those is part of the Mississippi Valley Collection at the University of Memphis in Tennessee. Hopkins also wrote biographies of Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Raquel Welch, and Yoko Ono. A resident of Hawai‘i from 1976-1993, he now lives in Thailand.