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’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 ...

In 1958, Elvis Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, arranged for news crews to document the singer’s induction into the army. Elvis would serve in the United States Army despite his celebrity status ...

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 ...

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), ...

Elvis Presley made a wicked deal with the devil: He kept his mouth shut about his manager Colonel Tom Parker's destructive gambling addiction because Parker was keeping Presley's drug habit hush-hush, ...

A major milestone was reached in Elvis Presley's career 70 years ago today when he left Sun Records and signed with RCA as part of a complex deal carefully negotiated by Elvis's manager, Colonel Tom ...

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 ...

A movie about the relationship between Elvis Presley and manager Colonel Tom Parker is in the works. Producers David Permut and Steve Binder are developing The Colonel, which chronicles the life of ...

When Colonel Tom Parker approached Sam Phillips in 1955 with a proposal to arrange a recording contract for a little-known, but promising singer named Elvis Presley, Phillips was not only exasperated ...

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, ...