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The music historian Peter Guralnick’s new book, which draws on documents Tom Parker left behind, paints a different picture ...
Biographer Peter Guralnick paints a surprising portrait of Presley's long-time manager, Col. Tom Parker: "He had nothing whatsoever to do with the music other than to defend Elvis' choices." ...
Peter Guralnick completes his biographical trilogy with The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley and the ...
Parker was indeed born in 1909 but wasn’t from West Virginia and in fact wasn’t even American. What’s more he wasn’t a ...
Every good story needs a villain and Colonel Tom Parker has usually occupied that role in the Elvis biography. Think of Tom Hanks’ scenery chewing in Baz Luhrmann’s eye-popping 2022 Elvis biopic.
With ZZ Top bringing its Elevation Tour to Hard Rock Hotel & Casino's Battery Park on Saturday it is a good time to take a ...
Clinton is the leader of two important funk bands, Parliament and Funkadelic. In 1975, Parliament released Mothership Connection, a loose concept album about funk musicians as galactic invaders.
Elvis may have left the building in 1977, but in 2025 a new immersive show in London called Elvis Evolution aims to bring the ...
August non-fiction releases include they include books on the atomic bomb, a Gilded Age party queen, Elvis, James Baldwin, Martians, and more.
In the classic TV adaptation of the Marvel comic, The Incredible Hulk, Bill Bixby plays David Banner, a physicist who is ...
Music biopics give us a peek into the lives of our favorite musicians. They reveal their personal struggles and inspiration, ...
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Peter Guralnick talks Elvis with rock legend J. Geils, there ...