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A new biography of the singer's much vilified and exploitative manager 'Colonel' Tom Parker aims to restore his reputation, ...
Peter Guralnick's new book, “The Colonel and the King,” is focused on the man who elevated Elvis Presley to superstardom: ...
The music historian Peter Guralnick’s new book, which draws on documents Tom Parker left behind, paints a different picture ...
When Colonel Tom Parker approached Sam Phillips in 1955 with a proposal to arrange a recording contract for a little-known, ...
A new Elvis Presley book has dispelled a massive Colonel Parker myth, thanks to previously unpublished evidence.
The Colonel and the King” is the third chapter in Peter Guralnick’s Elvis files, often cited as the only true accounts of his ...
Elvis biographer Peter Guralnick explains the truth behinds some of the popular myths about Colonel Tom Parker, the blustery ...
Biographer Peter Guralnick shows us that loving Elvis also means loving Colonel Parker, no matter how grudgingly.
Rowland had a volatile and estranged relationship with his father, who regularly beat him up and treated him like the black ...
Now a grandmaster of American letters, at the age of 81, Peter Guralnick remains unique among his generation of music writers. His contemporaries – Nick Tosches, Paul Williams, Greil Marcus ...
Byron D’Andra Orey and Jeanne Middleton Harriston will be discussing “Mississippi, Conflict and Change” Noon Wednesday, History Is Lunch, Two Mississippi Museums, 222 North Street, Jackson, and ...
In ‘The Colonel and the King,’ Peter Guralnick offers an unexpected view of Elvis Presley’s legendary manager, Colonel Tom ...