Elvis Presley

Top Penguin Authors Recommend Books for Holidays - Authorlink

source: Authorlink

Top Penguin Authors Recommend Books for Holidays subscription) Patricia Cornwell plans to give Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick, the book that inspired her visit to Graceland, ...

Published Wed, Nov 18

DAVID BOWIE and ELVIS

source: ELVISBLOG

Bowie’s manager – Tony DeFries – was a big fan of Elvis’ manager Colonel Tom Parker and would quote from Parker’s book to anyone who would listen.  This is another pretty weak connection between Elvis and Bowie.  If it is true, I wonder if DeFries took a 50% cut of Bowie’s earnings, like the Col...

Published Sat, Oct 17

Country Music Hall of Fame to Open Exhibit on Colonel Parker in September

source: Elvis Presley.com.au

Mysterious and shrewd, Colonel Tom Parker revolutionized the business of promotion and management while guiding the careers of Eddy Arnold, Elvis Presley, and others. Marking the hundredth birth anniversary of the late music industry legend, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum...

Published Tue, Sep 15

Parker Expo Country Music Hall Of Fame

source: ElvisNews.com NewsFeed

Mysterious and shrewd, Colonel Tom Parker revolutionized the business of promotion and management while guiding the careers of Eddy Arnold, Elvis Presley, and others. Marking the hundredth birth anniversary of the late music...

Published Tue, Sep 15

Country Music Hall of Fame to Open Exhibit on Colonel Parker in September

source: Elvis.com

Spotlight Exhibit: Colonel Tom Parker Opens: September 25, 2009 Where: Country Music Hall of Fame, Nashville, Tennessee Mysterious and shrewd, Colonel Tom Parker revolutionized the business of promotion and management while guiding the careers of Eddy Arnold, Elvis Presley, and o...

Published Sun, Sep 13

Tribute: Hats Off to Sedaka

source: California Chronicle

 CA And how many people realise that Sedaka's early Sixties success was so great that Elvis Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker did everything he could to bar his path? Or that Sedaka wrote (Is This The Way To) Amarillo which, in 2006, was officially ...

Published Fri, Jun 5

Fight for Your Right

source: Houston Press

 TX Others, like Elvis Presley, along with his Svengali/manager, Colonel Tom Parker, simply tacked their names onto the songwriting credits whether or not they had anything to do with composing the actual music or lyrics. (They generally didn't. ...

Published Wed, Jun 3

Festival lives on in the spirit of creator Willie King

source: Dateline Alabama

 AL Guralnick, who has written numerous books including “Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues, Country and Rock 'n' Roll,” “Searching for Robert Johnson” and three books on Elvis Presley, remembers traveling to King's home in Aliceville. ...

Published Fri, May 29