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 ...

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, ...

In the history of rock 'n' roll, there may be no behind-the-scenes figure more vilified and less understood than Colonel Tom Parker. As the longtime manager of Elvis Presley, Parker was the chief ...

Dolly Parton's plan to let Elvis Presley cover her song 'I Will Always Love You' fell apart following a row with his manager Colonel Tom Parker. The 77-year-old country superstar has revealed she was ...

For all this, Colonel received up to a 50% draw for his various services. Presley was a great moneymaker, not just for himself and his manager, but for all those with whom Parker negotiated deals. By ...

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.

"THE COLONEL AND THE KING: TOM PARKER, ELVIS PRESLEY AND THE RELATIONSHIP THAT ROCKED THE WORLD" by Peter Guralnick (Little, Brown and Company, 624 pages, $38). Facts tend to lose the battle with ...

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 ...

Tom Hanks is in negotiations to play Elvis Presley‘s iconic manager Colonel Tom Parker in Baz Luhrmann‘s untitled Warner Bros. biopic about the legendary musician. Luhrmann will direct the movie. He ...

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 ...