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 ! |
| The 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. |
| Elvis - 100% live on stage |
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 |
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.
| 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
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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. |
| Like 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
leaves the stage - Matinee Show
- July 19, 1975
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