Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elvis Presley’s longtime manager was Colonel Tom Parker, who helped the rock ’n’ roll singer build his massively successful career ...

Author Peter Guralnick wrote the definitive two-volume biography of the King: "Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley" (1994), and "Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley" (2000). And ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yet history also tells us that Elvis had help. Not even Elvis would have been Elvis without Colonel Tom Parker, a Dutch-born mover ...

The music historian Peter Guralnick’s new book, which draws on documents Tom Parker left behind, paints a different picture of an infamous industry figure. By Ben Sisario In the history of rock ’n’ ...

What if we got it wrong about Colonel Tom Parker? That’s the provocative question raised by music historian Peter Guralnick’s latest book, “The Colonel and the King” (Little, Brown, 624 pp., out now), ...

Peter Guralnick’s “The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the Partnership That Rocked the World” is this year’s must-read rock ‘n’ roll biography, taking a close look at how Parker, ...

The popular perception of Colonel Tom Parker is that he chiseled Elvis Presley out of a lot of money, forced his participation in some really bad 1960s movies and ensured Presley’s late-career ...

Elvis’ mysterious manager Colonel Tom Parker was not everything he appeared to be. He claimed, for example, to have been born in West Virginia in 1909 and to have fallen in with carnival folk at an ...

Elvis Presley and his manager Colonel Tom Parker in Memphis, Tennessee, circa 1956. Film Critic The story of Elvis Presley is the story of America in the last half of the 20th century, so explosively ...

The story of Elvis Presley is the story of America in the last half of the 20th century, so explosively improbable that we can still barely make sense of it a quarter of the way through the 21st. You ...