Book written and CD compiled by Trevor Simpson.

This is the continuation of the British story now detailing his RCA releases from 1957 - 1958.

This book and CD release is a follow-up companion to the critically acclaimed and highly successful The Best Of British - The HMV Years (see here) and contains the full history of over FIFTY iconic Elvis songs initially released by RCA in Great Britain. Again, each song has been thoroughly researched to the same high standards and is graphically catalogued.

Containing over 1000 illustrations, unpublished photographs and charts, together with rare items of memorabilia, this volume of The RCA Years moves the story forward to explicitly reveal previously unknown facts and additional British connections to the songs.

Within these 500 pages and amongst many formerly unknown fascinating facts, you will discover: The English pub that inspired an Elvis song! Exactly where and when Elvis learned to play piano! The real life characters contained within the lyrics of 'Jailhouse Rock'!

The CD included with this book features many first-time officially released Elvis tracks. Here, amongst his classic songs, are the songwriters' demo recordings as Elvis first heard them, plus the message he recorded on his home answer machine!

The RCA Years (1957 - 1958) chronicles the meteoric rise in Great Britain of the "Sun King" to the man who would ultimately be crowned "Artist Of The 20th Century".

There is an error on the CD where it shows "The HMV Years - 1957-1958" instead of "The RCA Years - 1957-1958".

The "Soundtrack Selections" are mostly audio tracks which have been lifted directly from the movie soundtracks.

Although being listed as 'Elvis' Answering Machine' (track 33) this is actually made up from 'The Truth About Me' interview outtakes, and roughed up to sound as though it was recorded over the phone, but the author thought it was real!