Originally RCA Victor had planned a soundtrack album to MGM's "Standing Room Only" movie (later renamed to "Elvis On Tour"), but then the king's concerts at the Madison Square Garden generated such a media hype, that it was decided to scrap the album and release one of the shows in New York City instead. On June 10, 1972 RCA recorded the matinee concert and the evening show and released the last mentioned one just eight days later under the name of "Elvis As Recorded At Madison Square Garden". The RIAA honored the US sales with a Tripple Platinum Award, worldwide more than five million copies were retailed. The afternoon concert was released in 1997 on a compact disc called "An Afternoon In The Garden". It wasn't as successful as the original album, but still earned the king a posthumous Gold Award.

In 2012 Sony Music Entertainment honored the 40th Anniversary of the concerts with "Prince From Another Planet", a boxed set containing two cds, one dvd and a book. On the Billboard Charts it stagnated at number 187, but in Europe the set was received better. In the Netherlands it peaked at number 57. Not a sales hit at all, but still not bad for a relatively expensive boxed set from an artist, that was gone for almost four decades. On Spotify "Prince From Another Planet" accumulates 32 million requests.

On the streaming platforms "Prince From Another Planet" is presented HiRes. The better sound of these versions is owed exclusively to the new mastering (the elimination of interfering noise) and mixing. Because first one cannot turn an analogue recording into a high resolution recording just by scanning the tape with hd equipment and second even an old cd with 16 bit/44.1 kHz exceeds the auditory sense of a human being.

After an introduction by Ernst Mikael Jorgensen and Roger Semon we get some excerpts of the press conference from June 9, 1972. They are followed by the article in the New York Times that gave the release its name. At the time Chris Chase was so excited, that he headlined his review with "Like A Prince From Another Planet". The core of the book is an article by Lenny Kaye. In 1972 he covered the press conference and the opening show on June 9th for the "Cavalier" magazine. The softcover book has 50 pages, includes many photos and is very well designed.

For this project Sean Brennan scanned the old analogue tapes at the Battery Studios in New York City. Vic Anesini mastered the digital copies and sent the results to Michael H. Brauer and Ryan Gilligan. At the Electric Lady Studios everything was mixed from the scratch. The original tracks were allocated to four tracks and sent to separate compressors. Then the signals were sent back to the mixing console, where the Stereo image was created. This procedure had been developed by Michael H. Brauer and is patented under the name "Brauerize". The result is simply stunning. Everything sounds punchy and vital, at a certain volume one really gets the impression of being there. The audio is much better than on "Elvis As Recorded At Madison Square Garden" (1972) and "An Afternoon In The Garden" (1997). For reviews of the concerts tap HERE (Afternoon) and HERE (Evening). By the way: Ten years after this set was released, Sony's own collector's label Follow That Dream Records issued the shows again, this time without the dvd, but including the an audio recording of the press conference. For the 2022 re-release the recordings were newly mastered by Jan Eliasson and mixed by Matt Ross Spang. On this incarnation the sound is not so much "right in the face". In the end it's a matter of personal taste, in general it's neither better nor worse.

The digital versatile disc includes a documentary about Elvis' shows at the Madison Square Garden and very good 8mm footage from the afternoon show on June 10th. The press conference is featured as well. The disc was produced by John Jackson, the fan film from Don Lance was mastered by Tyler Fagerstrom. What can I say? The documentary is well done and the 8mm footage belongs to the best material of this kind.