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- Born To Rock
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The
book :
The book really lives up
to its title and gives the answer to the question
"Who's Born To Rock?" not only with
its fantastic graphical material ! |
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Elvis
- Born To Rock
The time is over
to put one single photo
on a single page
and call it a book !
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front row ticket given by the book not only
brings you back to 1975, it builds up the sold
out arenas and coliseums again in your mind;
it brings the excitment that is in the air to
your home; it transports the hysteric screams
and the thunderous applause from the past to
the present and comes with a tour schedule,
every candidate for presidency would have won
the elections with. |
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Elvis
- 100% live on stage
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The
majority of the photos, taken during Elvis long
concert tours in the 70s, are so called live
candids. That means, photos with small Instamatic
cameras with small flashbulbs, with only a small
coverage concerning the illumination, and with
a fixed focal distance, allowing no zooms. The
advantage to these photos is that you can see
mostly the entire stage, including Elvis and
all his musicians. The disadvantage is, it was
impossible to see a close-up image of Elvis.
You could not see any facial expressions or
details of his beautiful costumes.
The
fan shots are still very valuable to the collector,
because they a historic account of Elvis at
different venues in different outfits. Especially
since very little video or photo material of
this nature has ever been officially released.The
content:
"Elvis - Born To Rock" offers the
fan more than 320 photos on over 150 pages,
and the majority of the shots are professionally
taken and in brilliant color.
A
few fans managed, however, to smuggle high quality
equipment into the concerts. The better equipment
opened up completely different possibilities
to the hobby-photographer. Elvis as single image
on the photo - that never existed before. The
word of these more professional, close-up photos
of Elvis spread quickly in the fan scene, so
it was not astonishing that names like Keith
Alverson, Sean Shaver or George Hill were called
"official" Elvis-photographers.
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Evening Show
July 19, 1975 |
This title, official Elvis-photographer, can
only Ed Bonja claim for himself, whose images
were not only released in a book, but they were
published for the fans already in the 70s due
to the decision of the Colonel, to use Bonja's
pictures for a LP cover. The
difference from all published picures so far
is that the fans get nearly for the first time,
pictures taken with professional 35mm equipment.
James Faro, photographer of this illustrated
book, had the opportunity to have Elvis so near
to his lens that no disturbing heads or fan
posters obstruct the view of the observer to
the King. Sometimes it is mysterious how it
is possible to take a photo the way that it
seems the photographer stood together with Elvis
on stage. If you look at the photo of the cover
of the book it seems as if there had been a
photo session and Elvis posed for the photographer.
The depth of sharpness of the photos are so
sensational that even the small details of the
colorful jumpsuits are outstandingly visible
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Photos from the book "Elvis - Born To
Rock"
Matinee Show - July 19, 1975
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The
book celebrates the two concerts of July 19th
1975 in a unique and impressive manner. It starts
with the appearance at the airport as Elvis
flies into New York. It shows Elvis on the way
to the hotel from the airport, from the hotel
to the Nassau Colisuem, and finally Elvis on
stage. Also included are interesting photos
of the Nassau coliseum, concert tickets and
actual memorabilia that was sold during this
tour in 1975.
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In
this book you will see much more than
usual 10-15 pictures of a typical photo
set that is traded by photo collectors
Born To Rock will NOT contain the usual
known pictures from the soft cover book
of John Reggiero, published in 1979.
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The concert photos of "Born To Rock"
are unreleased pictures, which have never been
published and here for the first time see the
light of day.
The complete concert operation - and complete
means for the producers from the beginning until
the end - are here illustrated. All striking
events of the show are captured here in pictures
for posterity so you can always "relive"
them again - only in the memory of people who
were actually in the audience themselves can
there be seen a more vivid impression.
Largo - 27. Juni
1976 |
The
photographer James Faro was in the fortunate
situation not only to be at the two
Uniondale shows, he was able to experience
Elvis in 1975 & 1976 on stage. His
shots from June 27th 1976 have found
their way to the bonus chapter of the
"Born To Rock" book. Gaze
at the glory of the "Pre-Historic
Bird Suit" while running over the
pages and follow the concert by means
of the stories and newspaper reviews
as if you were actually there.
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Evening
Performance - 19. Juli 1975 |
Because
the format of the Behind The Image book proved
itself, "Praytome Publishing" decided
to stabilize the standard and to expand it in
certain areas. The important attributes like
hard cover and manually binded, as well as high
gloss paper were adopted. By Bud Glass's decision
to integrate a bonus chapter, the number of
pages was increased to nearly 160 pages and
beats the pants off the values of the previous
product. Production wise, the complete book
was this time provided with a print varnishing.
This method guarantees that (especially on pictures
with dark areas) the fingerprints don't remain
visible and so the single pages will always
look new and unread. |
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on the DVD productions of "Praytome Publishing"
and "Bud Glass Productions" where
it is always resorted to the original material
(at the Super 8 material the original reel is
used as source), the photographs in this book
was taken nearly exclusively from the 35mm original
negatives. Our special thanks to Bob Klein,
who provided most of the material used in Born
To Rock, from his photo archive. |
With
"Born To Rock" you're getting an all
around - carefree - complete package.
Besides the uncountable photos, a lot of information
is waiting for you. Overviews on the according
tour schedule with statements of places and
experience reports of fans, who experienced
the concerts live, news paper articles, listings
from 1975 directly with events concerning Elvis
and a short overview on the most important world
events of that time. . These mentioned attributes
mark out the "Born To Rock" project
and ensure that - without a doubt - the product
may be called a book
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Evening
Performance - July 19, 1975
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Elvis
enters the stage - Matinee Show - July 19,
1975 |
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