Elvis Presley worked with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, for years. Parker helped lift Elvis to unprecedented heights, but he also kept the singer on a tight leash. Elvis rarely pushed back against ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Singing your heart out and charismatically rocking out on stage only gets you so far, even for the best musicians, Elvis Presley ...

Elvis Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, has faced criticism for the control he exercised over the singer. According to members of Elvis’ entourage, he also exercised control over them. They ...

One of the more controversial business figures in rock ‘n’ roll history is Elvis Presley‘s manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Time after time, folks have painted Parker in a bad light, given that he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Gene Austin arrived in Tampa in January of 1939 with his new, self-financed movie, Songs and Saddles, he was at loose ends.

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 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 ...

Terry Gross talks with rock historian Peter Guralnick, author of the definitive two volume biography of Elvis Presley. His new book is about Elvis's longtime manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Guralnick ...

The reassessment if not quite rehabilitation of Elvis' much maligned manager, Colonel Tom Parker, continues in earnest with a new exhibition, "Colonel Parker's World of Show Business," now on display ...

George Hamilton attended Elvis Presley's funeral in 1977 with Colonel Tom Parker, who he said was grief-stricken but trying to hide it.