In many ways, it’s the origin story of the rock and roll revolution: How the man who called himself Colonel Tom Parker ...

Elvis biographer Peter Guralnick explains the truth behinds some of the popular myths about Colonel Tom Parker, the blustery ...

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

The Colonel and the King” is the third chapter in Peter Guralnick’s Elvis files, often cited as the only true accounts of his ...

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

Award-winning Elvis biographer Peter Guralnick shares a new eye-opening look at the complicated story of Elvis’s manager.

A new Elvis Presley book has dispelled a massive Colonel Parker myth, thanks to previously unpublished evidence.

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

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

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

Every good story needs a villain and Colonel Tom Parker has usually occupied that role in the Elvis biography. Think of Tom Hanks’ scenery chewing in Baz Luhrmann’s eye-popping 2022 Elvis biopic.

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 ...