Singing your heart out and charismatically rocking out on stage only gets you so far, even for the best musicians, Elvis Presley included. Despite his incredible talent and good looks, Elvis still ...

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 ...

When Gene Austin arrived in Tampa in January of 1939 with his new, self-financed movie, Songs and Saddles, he was at loose ends. Austin had been a genuine pop superstar in the ‘20s (his 1927 hit, “My ...

"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 ...

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 ...