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

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 ...

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." ...

Helping Elvis Presley, right, cut a straight furrow is his business manager and confidant, “Colonel” Tom Parker of Madison, Tenn. on January 7, 1957. Scene is from the set of the Presley movie ...

Colonel Tom appealed to the singer’s father, Vernon, to step in and try to convince Elvis to get help. “It became a question of how do you get a man to save himself,” says Terrill.

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

The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley, by Alanna Nash. Simon & Schuster. 416 pages. $25. In the annals of villainy, there are but a few scoundrels so vil… ...

During the Elvis panel at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, the Oscar winner, 65, shared what it was like to go against type to play an unlikeable character like Colonel Tom Parker, who ...

Elvis Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker died in 1997 at age 87. He was depicted by Tom Hanks in Baz Luhrmann's biopic "Elvis" starring Austin Butler as the King.

Elvis Presley’s 1974 minor hit “My Boy” might serve as the alternative title for The Colonel, a film bio of the King’s Svengali-like manager, Colonel Tom Parker. The film is in the works ...

Helping Elvis Presley, right, cut a straight furrow is his business manager and confidant, “Colonel” Tom Parker of Madison, Tenn. on January 7, 1957. Scene is from the set of the Presley movie ...