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Addiction was the glue that held Elvis Presley and his manager 'Colonel' Tom Parker together during the last few years of the ...
Peter Guralnick's new book, “The Colonel and the King,” is focused on the man who elevated Elvis Presley to superstardom: ...
A new biography of the singer's much vilified and exploitative manager 'Colonel' Tom Parker aims to restore his reputation, ...
Elvis biographer Peter Guralnick explains the truth behinds some of the popular myths about Colonel Tom Parker, the blustery ...
Colonel Tom Parker, the manager that helped turn Elvis into a star, gets the spotlight in Peter Guralnick biography of a ...
Singing your heart out and charismatically rocking out on stage only gets you so far, even for the best musicians, Elvis ...
On August 16, 1977, Elvis Presley died of a heart attack, aged 42. Shortly after, Elvis’s manager, Colonel Thomas Parker, treated the tragic news like an unplanned, egregious accounting error that ...
Biographer Peter Guralnick shows us that loving Elvis also means loving Colonel Parker, no matter how grudgingly.
Elvis Presley’s Most Complicated Relationship Gets Spotlighted in New Book first appeared on Parade on Aug 7, 2025 This story ...
Colonel Tom Parker (1909-97) was the man who ripped Elvis Presley off and worked him to death. That’s the received wisdom ...
Did Elvis know Tom Parker was an undocumented immigrant? Peter Guralnick spills the biggest secrets in his Tom Parker book ...
Colonel Tom Parker first saw the 20-year-old Elvis Presley perform live at the Louisiana Hayride on 15 January 1955. Though ...