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As the longtime manager of Elvis Presley, Parker was the chief business force behind an artist who had a world-shaking impact ...
Forty-eight years after the death of the King of Rock and Roll, a new box set focuses on the work he did in L.A. in the early ...
Long Island mourned Elvis Presley's death in 1977, with fans gathering to honor the rock and roll icon's memory at Nassau ...
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When Colonel Tom Parker approached Sam Phillips in 1955 with a proposal to arrange a recording contract for a little-known, ...
Biographer Peter Guralnick shows us that loving Elvis also means loving Colonel Parker, no matter how grudgingly.
Peter Guralnick's new book, “The Colonel and the King,” is focused on the man who elevated Elvis Presley to superstardom: ...
Colonel Tom Parker, the manager that helped turn Elvis into a star, gets the spotlight in Peter Guralnick biography of a carny turned kingmaker.
In "The Colonel and the King," Peter Guralnick offers an unexpected view of Elvis Presley’s legendary manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Peter Guralnick’s hefty book about Colonel Tom Parker, pictured left with client Elvis and Ed Sullivan in 1956, paints the portrait of a tireless hustler desperate to reinvent himself.