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When Colonel Tom Parker approached Sam Phillips in 1955 with a proposal to arrange a recording contract for a little-known, ...

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

Peter Guralnick's new book, “The Colonel and the King,” is focused on the man who elevated Elvis Presley to superstardom: ...

Did Elvis know Tom Parker was an undocumented immigrant? Peter Guralnick spills the biggest secrets in his Tom Parker book ...

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In his new book, acclaimed music historian and Elvis biographer Peter Guralnick focuses on Colonel Tom Parker’s side of the ...

The music historian Peter Guralnick’s new book, which draws on documents Tom Parker left behind, paints a different picture ...

Award-winning Elvis biographer Peter Guralnick shares a new eye-opening look at the complicated story of Elvis’s manager.

The Colonel and the King” is the third chapter in Peter Guralnick’s Elvis files, often cited as the only true accounts of his ...

In ‘The Colonel and the King,’ Peter Guralnick offers an unexpected view of Elvis Presley’s legendary manager, Colonel Tom ...

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