-December
24, 2011 - Merry Christmas and all the best for 2012!
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We hope you all have a "Merry Christmas"
and we wish you all the best for the next year.
2012 will be a special year for all of us because
of the 35th anniversary of Elvis' passing. So let's
hope that the Elvis producers and EPE create magnificent
events and give us new wonderful releases.
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-March
21, 2011 - Author Charles Stone "My Life with Elvis
& The Colonel" in Finland
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Praytome Publishing - author Charles Stone (My Years
with Elvis & The Colonel) is actually doing shows
in Finaland with tribute artist Craig Parker. During
the show Charles Stone comes on stage and tells little
stories about his times with Elvis & The Colonel
while Stone was working as a tour manager. To have
an original Elvis related VIP in his country is something
the local press is very excited about. They were asking
for interviews and one of them was published in the
Hufvudstadsbladet (see article from March 18, 2011).
You
can also meet Charles Stone in Denmark as he will
be there, when the Danish Fanclub "Elvis Unlimited"
will have the Opening Show (Red Carpet Show) on April
15, 2011 for their museum which is called "Graceland
Randers" (Ridehuset, Vaerket, Denmark).
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-February
16, 2011 - Ed Bonja & Buzz Aldrin at "Cinema For
Peace" event in Berlin
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-February
15, 2011 - Exhibition "Elvis! Elvis Who?" by Ed
Bonja & Peter Badge
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A selection of the worldwide known Elvis-shots of
Ed Bonja (Praytome Publishing) are presented in co-operation
with photographer Peter Badge (Typos1 / "Nobel-Faces")
in Berlin at the nhb Studios.
The opening takes place on February 17, 2011. The
doors open at 7:00 P.M.
The photographers will open the ceremony and will
be available for questions and answers. You will also
have the chance to get your personal print signed
by the artist. Regina Wiegand (Layout), André
Mester (Editor) and Greg Retkowski (Producer) of Praytome
Publishing will attend the Opening, too. As you may
know, in the meantime the "Berlinale" takes
places and the chance that some VIPs will visit the
gallery as well, is very high. So be sure to come
around and visit the exhibition.
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-February
01, 2011 - From the desk of Charles Stone
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Author Charles Stone with his
book "My Years with Elvis & The Colonel"
in the giftshop of Elvis Presley Enterprises, Memphis,
TN
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In December 2010, after the sad news of the passing
of singer Shaun Nielsen and Myrna Smith, we received
another sad note about the death of Elvis' old budd
Lamar Fike, who was with Elvis since the 1950's.
Charles
Stone, author of the Praytome Publishing book "My
Years with Elvis & The Colonel", told us
the following:
Bruce Jackson, a sound reinforcement pioneer and technology
developer at Dolby, is missed since the last weekend
when he was on a trip with his plane flying over Death
Valley. Since he was on his own and so far no sign
of life as been received, one can assume that Jackson
was killed during a plane crash.
In
the Elvis world Jackson is known for his work in the
Elvis Tour crew from 1971-77 where he was in charge
for the acoustics and the sound technology. Jackson
can also be credited for taping dozens of the King's
concerts. During the research for Charles Stone's
book, photographer Ed Bonja (who works for Praytome
Publishing) reestablished contact to Bruce Jackson.
A lot of people tried to get in touch with Jackson,
but he never gave detailed information about his time
he had with the Elvis entourage. After having seen
the quality of the Praytome Publishing products he
offered to contribute information and pictures from
his private collection. These pictures were published
for the first time in "My
Years With Elvis & The Colonel" which you
can order by clicking here.
Jackson
also was involved in the works for the upcoming Praytome
Publishing book "Elvis on Tour '72" by Ed
Bonja. As it seems, Jackson's involvement into this
project can not be continued unfortunately.
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