“The Colonel and the King” offers a powerful addendum to Guralnick’s “Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley” (1994) and “Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley” (1999), the author’s ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Key Takeaways: Elvis Presley’s longtime manager was Colonel Tom Parker, who helped the rock ’n’ roll ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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), ...

Early on in life, Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk knew that he needed to leave. Born in the Netherlands in 1909, he was a strange, enchanted boy, possessed with a wild imagination and overcome with ...

No other legacy has been more revised by rock n’ roll history than that of Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s longtime manager who — according to popular belief — forced the late icon into Hollywood ...

Elvis' dark secrets have surfaced 50 years later as his drug addiction and volatile bond with Colonel Tom Parker are exposed. Music historian Peter Guralnick's blockbuster new book, The Colonel and ...

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 ...