Photo by Jon W. Sparks / Special to The Commercial Appeal
George Klein entertains the crowd with stories of Elvis at a signing for Klein's book "Elvis, My Best Man" at Davis-Kidd Booksellers.
It was standing room only at Davis-Kidd Booksellers Wednesday evening as about 40 or so fans of George Klein listened to tales of Elvis Presley from the man who shared a lifelong friendship with the entertainer.
Klein was telling stories from his book "Elvis, My Best Man" (Crown Publishing, $25), a performance he'll repeat today from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Elvis Lives Exhibit at Graceland Crossing, part of the Elvis Week festivities.
Photo by Jon W. Sparks / Special to The Commercial Appeal
George Klein entertains the crowd with stories of Elvis at a signing for Klein's book "Elvis, My Best Man" at Davis-Kidd Booksellers.
Even if Elvis is at the center of this week's universe, Klein — known since radio days as GK — has his own base, including Cydney Norwood who got to know him when she was a barista at Starbucks. "He's always nice and we'd talk about the University of Memphis Tigers," she said, clutching her newly autographed book.
It was well attended by a Memphis crowd, including David Simmons of LongRiver Entertainment Group, Memphis entertainment luminary Herbie O'Mell and former Commercial Appeal photographer Bob Williams who has a few Elvis photos in his portfolio.
Klein never seems to tire of telling his Elvis stories, but he delighted in relating his most recent adventure, which was giving Prince Albert of Monaco and his fiancee Charlene Wittstock a tour of Graceland last week and just generally hanging out and having a good time.
"I asked him what he wanted me to call him," Klein said, "and he said I could call him Prince or Albert. So I called him Prince."
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