"Elvis - Born To Rock"
(Praytome Publishing/ Bud Glass Production)

Good things take a while, but now we can present you with the latest joined venture of Bud Glass and Gregor Retkovski. Great expectation resting on this literature publication and the release was anticipated with excitement and honest interest in the Elvis-word.

Due to high-quality publications like "Behind The Image" (Book & DVD), "Behind The Image, Vol. II" (DVD) and "Adrenaline" (DVD) the experts of praytome publishing made themselves a name with their evidentiary work in the Elvis world and managed to make the label praytome publishing one of the highest standards.

No exception is the latest piece of work: ELVIS - BORN TO ROCK, the literature release of two concerts of Elvis Presley on the 19th of July 1975 from the Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, New York.

The book contains exiting moments of the 19th of July 1975 and presents us with the chronological complete day of the American superstar on that eventful day.

Exiting close-up's are documenting both of Elvis performances on that hot summer day in July 1975 and gives us an impressive insight view into a normal "working day" in the life of this popular musician.

Everything is documented:
Elvis arrival at John F. Kennedy Airport, the breathtaking afternoon show just as well as the return to the JFK Hilton Hotel, where Elvis got prepared for the evening show. Dressed in a brand new rock'n'roll outfit Elvis heads of to his highly demanded and completely sold out evening show. Once again there where photographers about who managed to document the second performance on that evening of the 19th of July 1975, where Elvis performed such excellent songs like "Big Boss Man", "You'll Never Walk Alone" and I'm Leavin'".

The book that's filled up to the top with brilliant colour photographs doesn't just make a difference to other photo books by the diversity of colours to the photographs used, but impresses by including additional interesting information, such as the background report of the Faros, a married couple who visited Elvis concert in New York and met him again a few days later in Memphis.

Pictures of the designer sketches of his new stage outfit bring us a slight insight look into the preparations of an Elvis Presley concert event.

A total concert- and record chronology complete the positive overall impression of this book and give us a representative overview of Elvis musical creativity in the year 1975. It's also interesting to notice the list of most important musical, political and social events in context with the Elvis activities of the year 1975.

With all this information; a flood of life-, private- and backstage photographs; the picture of Uniondale Concert Arena and a 5 $ concert ticket of the 19th of July 1975 the book could have easily come to a dignified end on page 122. But the publisher toped all that with a bonus chapter and added another extra-chapter with 41 additional colour photos of the 27th of June 1976 to this marvellous book!

Open the book and be overwhelmed by the intensity and power of the colour prints. Most of them are presented in large format.

All we dreamed of for a long time as collectors is brought to life by the praytome products: rocking crystal clear video tapings in an almost perfect TV quality, crystal clear views into the wild Elvis Presley concerts in the early 70s and literature publications that bring tears of joy to the eye of us collectors. The legendary books of Joe Tunzi, Roger Semon and Ger Rijeff are sacrosanct, but praytome managed to present the same high quality and for the first time in colour! In brilliant, luminous and crystal clear colours! Embedded in the most high standard cover the Elvis world has ever seen. This piece of work was handpicked and bounded in a hard cover binder and equipped with the high classed 158 pages one could get ones hands on. Every single page of this book was covered by a special print protective lacquer, so that even after several times touching the pages browsing through this book there will be no visible finger prints left behind.

The following literature publications will be compared with the high quality of this product in the future…