Addiction was the glue that held Elvis Presley and his manager 'Colonel' Tom Parker together during the last few years of the ...

A new biography of the singer's much vilified and exploitative manager 'Colonel' Tom Parker aims to restore his reputation, ...

Biographer Peter Guralnick shows us that loving Elvis also means loving Colonel Parker, no matter how grudgingly.

The music historian Peter Guralnick’s new book, which draws on documents Tom Parker left behind, paints a different picture ...

A new Elvis Presley book has dispelled a massive Colonel Parker myth, thanks to previously unpublished evidence.

A new biography suggests the relationship between Elvis Presley and his maligned manager is ripe for reappraisal ...

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Peter Guralnick's new book, “The Colonel and the King,” is focused on the man who elevated Elvis Presley to superstardom: ...

Elvis biographer Peter Guralnick explains the truth behinds some of the popular myths about Colonel Tom Parker, the blustery ...

When Colonel Tom Parker approached Sam Phillips in 1955 with a proposal to arrange a recording contract for a little-known, ...

Elvis Presley and manager Colonel Tom Parker in Miami. Photograph: NBC/Getty Images “This is the ultimate American self-invention,” Guralnick concedes.

Award-winning Elvis biographer Peter Guralnick shares a new eye-opening look at the complicated story of Elvis’s manager.