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 ...

Elvis Presley‘s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, is not a beloved figure among the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll‘s fans. However, Bob Dylan put up a decent defense of Parker. Here’s a look at what the folk singer ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Colonel Tom Parker died in 1997, the former carnival pitchman who guided Elvis Presley to stardom was reviled for reportedly exploiting the "poor country boy" who became King. But in his final ...

Elvis Presley's plans to perform in London were derailed by his manager's immigration status. Legendary live promoter Harvey Goldsmith tried for years to bring 'The King of Rock 'n' Roll' across the ...

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 ...

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 ...

I love a good contrarian pop-culture take. The Beatles have too many fans. Monty Python is painfully unfunny. Chefs are not artists. But recasting the notorious Col. Tom Parker as a good guy is about ...

OK! can reveal the claim has resurfaced after renewed debate around Baz Luhrmann's 2022 film Elvis, which depicts Parker amplifying threats from overseas extremists to justify keeping Presley, then in ...

Elvis Presley was kept pinned to Las Vegas not only by contracts and cash, but by a climate of fear carefully cultivated by his manager, according to renewed scrutiny of how Colonel Tom Parker used ...