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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Biographer Peter Guralnick paints a surprising portrait of Presley's long-time manager, Col. Tom Parker: "He had nothing whatsoever to do with the music other than to defend Elvis' choices." ...

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There were a lot of great musical ideas floating around in the '60s, and no doubt The Byrds got some of theirs from being ...

With ZZ Top bringing its Elevation Tour to Hard Rock Hotel & Casino's Battery Park on Saturday it is a good time to take a ...

Clinton is the leader of two important funk bands, Parliament and Funkadelic. In 1975, Parliament released Mothership Connection, a loose concept album about funk musicians as galactic invaders.