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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A vigilant Colonel Tom Parker stands near Elvis Presley, who is surrounded by military police during a visit to Hawaii in 1961.

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 ...

Biographer Peter Guralnick shows us that loving Elvis also means loving Colonel Parker, no matter how grudgingly.

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), ...

Terry Gross talks with rock historian Peter Guralnick, author of the definitive two volume biography of Elvis Presley. His new book is about Elvis's longtime manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Guralnick ...

As the author of multiple books about Elvis Presley — including his magisterial 1994 biography “Last Train to Memphis” and its 1999 sequel, “Careless Love” — Peter Guralnick has interviewed hundreds ...