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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

From manipulation and financial shenanigans to scandal and ego, these infamous rock managers shaped music – and sometimes ...

The Outlaw John Rocha just watched a screening of ELVIS from director BAZ LUHRMANN and starring AUSTIN BUTLER as ELVIS PRESLEY and TOM HANKS as Col. Tom Parker in a film that explores the King of Rock ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Elvis Presley biographer Peter Guralnick's latest book, "The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the ...

"The Colonel and the King” by Peter Guralnick; Little, Brown and Company; 624 pages When Colonel Tom Parker approached Sam Phillips in 1955 with a proposal to arrange a recording contract for a little ...