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 ...

Elvis biographer Peter Guralnick explains the truth behinds some of the popular myths about Colonel Tom Parker, the blustery ...

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

Colonel Tom Parker, the manager that helped turn Elvis into a star, gets the spotlight in Peter Guralnick biography of a ...

Brenda Lee and Tony Orlando appeared during the Conversations on Elvis panel during Elvis Week in Memphis "There was nobody like him," Orlando said.

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

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

Elvis Presley first performed in Las Vegas in 1956. He bombed but wasn’t deterred from coming back. Eventually, Sin City ...

Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley Peter Guralnick, Author Back Bay Books $17.99 (576p) ISBN 978-0-316-33225-5 ...

Music scholar Peter Guralnick chose with care the title of the second half of his immense (and immensely important) Elvis biography. The first half, 1994's Last Train To Memphis, had as its ...

Peter Guralnick’s career as a writer could have turned out a lot differently had his first novel, “Guilt,” become the success it seemed it might in the early 1960s. “The first publisher I ...