Colonel and the King,’ by music writer Peter Guralnick, looks at how Colonel Tom Parker turned Elvis Presley into America’s first rock star ...

With hundreds of books on Elvis Presley already in print before the recent 20th anniversary of his death, there is some question why a new 500-page retelling of his life is necessary. Perhaps it’s ...

Elvis Presley would have been 70 this year, a difficult thing to conceive given the persistence of his lively younger selves in the public mind and pop culture whirl. Who knows what he might have ...

Elvis Presley had such a profound effect on the music business that even more than 40 years after his death he is still a cultural touchstone. That’s what makes “Elvis” – the latest from director Baz ...

Public interest in “Colonel” Tom Parker has been akin to the public’s attention to, say, the rats that carried the bubonic plague to -Europe. Typically, a focus on vermin has more to do with their ...

While Luhrmann claims that his film is not based on the acclaimed music journalists’ 2010 book, he did use research from the Colonel-Presley biography, which is considered one of the most definitive ...

Addiction was the glue that held Elvis Presley and his manager ‘Colonel’ Tom Parker together during the last few years of the singer’s life. Twenty years of lonely fame and wild extravagance had meant ...

Z2 Comics will release 'Elvis: The Graphic Novel', created with the Presley estate, in August. By Graeme McMillan The King of Rock and Roll is coming to comics in the first official graphic novel ...

Priscilla Presley’s honesty regarding her life with Elvis Presley in her biography titled Elvis and Me stunned longtime fans of the King of Rock and Roll. The 1985 book depicted Priscilla’s life with ...

Anyone casually familiar with rock ‘n’ roll history knows that Sam Phillips was present at the creation. If he didn’t exactly invent it, as the title of Peter Guralnick’s superb new biography ...

NPR's Bob Edwards talks with writer Bobbie Ann Mason about her new biography of Elvis Presley, part of the Penguin Lives series. Mason says she started out thinking other people might have better ...