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 ...

Elvis Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, ran the singer’s career with rigid control. He exercised a similar level of oversight over Elvis’ personal life. He encouraged him to get married, cut ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s fair to say that the curiosity of more than a few people was piqued by Tom Hanks’ portrayal of Elvis Presley’s career-long manager, Colonel Tom Parker, in the Austin Butler-starring biopic “Elvis ...

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 ...

“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 the one that I might choose or want, but it’s the truth that needs to ...

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 ...

Elvis Presley‘s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, is not a beloved figure among the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll‘s fans. However, Bob Dylan put up a decent defense of Parker. Here’s a look at what the folk singer ...

I love a good contrarian pop-culture take. The Beatles have too many fans. Monty Python is painfully unfunny. Chefs are not artists. But recasting the notorious Col. Tom Parker as a good guy is about ...

Peter Guralnick’s “The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the Partnership That Rocked the World” is this year’s must-read rock ‘n’ roll biography, taking a close look at how Parker, ...