In 1966, Elvis Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, decided he needed to exercise stronger control over his celebrity client. Elvis’ drug use had ramped up, something everyone in his life was aware ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Actor Tom Hanks looks to be adding another high-profile credit to his impressive resume. Variety reports that the Oscar winner is in talks to play Elvis Presley’s manager Col. Tom Parker in Baz ...

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 ...

As a teenager growing up in the 1950s, Steve North would look for the pink Cadillac outside a stone house on the outskirts of Nashville. If the car was there, Elvis was in the building. Decades later, ...