“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 ...

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, ...

He first became aware of the boy in early 1955 through an old pal in Texarkana, Arkansas, a DJ, radio personality, and promoter named Ernest Hackworth who went by the name of Uncle Dudley. Hackworth, ...

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 ...

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 and his manager Colonel Tom Parker in Memphis, Tennessee, circa 1956. Film Critic The story of Elvis Presley is the story of America in the last half of the 20th century, so explosively ...

It’s easy to paint Colonel Tom Parker with one brush. In Baz Luhrmann’s Oscar-nominated “Elvis” (2022), Tom Hanks portrayed Elvis Presley’s infamous manager almost like a comic book villain — ...

Author Peter Guralnick's new book, "The Colonel and the King," explores the complex relationship between Elvis Presley and his manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Guralnick's research, including Parker's ...