Colonel Tom Parker, the manager that helped turn Elvis into a star, gets the spotlight in Peter Guralnick biography of a ...

In ‘The Colonel and the King,’ Peter Guralnick offers an unexpected view of Elvis Presley’s legendary manager, Colonel Tom ...

The music historian Peter Guralnick’s new book, which draws on documents Tom Parker left behind, paints a different picture ...

Rowland had a volatile and estranged relationship with his father, who regularly beat him up and treated him like the black ...

Parker was indeed born in 1909 but wasn’t from West Virginia and in fact wasn’t even American. What’s more he wasn’t a ...

Peter Guralnick completes his biographical trilogy with The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley and the ...

Helping Elvis Presley, right, cut a straight furrow is his business manager and confidant, “Colonel” Tom Parker of Madison, Tenn. on January 7, 1957. Scene is from the set of the Presley movie ...

Colonel Tom appealed to the singer’s father, Vernon, to step in and try to convince Elvis to get help. “It became a question of how do you get a man to save himself,” says Terrill.

The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley, by Alanna Nash. Simon & Schuster. 416 pages. $25. In the annals of villainy, there are but a few scoundrels so vil… ...

During the Elvis panel at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, the Oscar winner, 65, shared what it was like to go against type to play an unlikeable character like Colonel Tom Parker, who ...

Elvis Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker died in 1997 at age 87. He was depicted by Tom Hanks in Baz Luhrmann's biopic "Elvis" starring Austin Butler as the King.

Helping Elvis Presley, right, cut a straight furrow is his business manager and confidant, “Colonel” Tom Parker of Madison, Tenn. on January 7, 1957. Scene is from the set of the Presley movie ...