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

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

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

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

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

“The real Tom Parker was nowhere near his public persona,” he shares. In fact, the Colonel had a warm, almost paternal relationship with Elvis.

Colonel Tom Parker laid down the law with Elvis Presley’s entourage In the late 1960s, Elvis’ road manager, Joe Esposito, picked up the musician to go to the studio and noticed that he seemed ...

‘Elvis and the Colonel’ Review: Saving Tom Parker The talent manager has been blamed for ruining Elvis Presley. Restoring his reputation is a monumental task.

The biographer of Colonel Tom Parker debunks several moments from Elvis that portrayed Elvis' manager, played by Tom Hanks, inaccurately.

When Parker crony Gabe Tucker threw a magazine piece on the Colonel’s desk that insinuated that Elvis was gay, Parker didn’t say a word until his friend stopped sputtering.