Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elvis Presley’s longtime manager was Colonel Tom Parker, who helped the rock ’n’ roll singer build his massively successful career ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 1956: Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images “The Colonel and the King” offers a powerful ...

Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977, at the age of 42, in his Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tennessee. His heart gave out after years of obesity and prescription drugs. His long-time talent agent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “In any book I do, I just want to paint a true picture,” said author and historian Peter Guralnick. “And the picture is not always ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yet history also tells us that Elvis had help. Not even Elvis would have been Elvis without Colonel Tom Parker, a Dutch-born mover ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Guralnick's hefty book about Colonel Tom Parker, pictured left with client Elvis and Ed Sullivan in 1956, paints the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Gene Austin arrived in Tampa in January of 1939 with his new, self-financed movie, Songs and Saddles, he was at loose ends.

Presley died in 1977 at age 42, after seven years performing in Las Vegas, while Parker, born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk, died in 1997 at age 87. In the film, Parker, played by Tom Hanks, is shown ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The reassessment if not quite rehabilitation of Elvis' much maligned manager, Colonel Tom Parker, continues in earnest with a new ...

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), ...

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. (CBS Photo ...

The story of Elvis Presley is the story of America in the last half of the 20th century, so explosively improbable that we can still barely make sense of it a quarter of the way through the 21st. You ...