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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What if we got it wrong about Colonel Tom Parker? That’s the provocative question raised by music historian Peter Guralnick’s ...

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 ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Elvis Presley biographer Peter Guralnick's latest book, "The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the ...

In ‘The Colonel and the King,’ Peter Guralnick offers an unexpected view of Elvis Presley’s legendary manager, Colonel Tom Parker. WEST NEWBURY — Colonel Tom Parker, the most legendary manager in show ...

A major milestone was reached in Elvis Presley's career 70 years ago today when he left Sun Records and signed with RCA as part of a complex deal carefully negotiated by Elvis's manager, Colonel Tom ...

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 ...

You may have guessed even before you got to the comma in “Softly, as I Leave You” that this is one sappy book. But come on: We’re talking about Elvis here. You want dry, crackling wit, try Calvin ...

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), ...

"The Colonel and the King” by Peter Guralnick; Little, Brown and Company; 624 pages When Colonel Tom Parker approached Sam Phillips in 1955 with a proposal to arrange a recording contract for a little ...

"The Colonel and the King” by Peter Guralnick; Little, Brown and Company; 624 pages When Colonel Tom Parker approached Sam Phillips in 1955 with a proposal to arrange a recording contract for a little ...