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 ...
Author Peter Guralnick's new book, "The Colonel and the King," explores the complex relationship between Elvis Presley and his manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Guralnick's research, including Parker's ...
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, ...
When Colonel Tom Parker approached Sam Phillips in 1955 with a proposal to arrange a recording contract for a little-known, but promising singer named Elvis Presley, Phillips was not only exasperated ...
One of the more controversial business figures in rock ‘n’ roll history is Elvis Presley‘s manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Time after time, folks have painted Parker in a bad light, given that he ...