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How Elvis Presley Was ‘Discovered’ by His Longtime Manager, Colonel Tom Parker: Excerpt From New Book ‘The Colonel and the King’


This chapter from Peter Guralnick's revelatory biography of Elvis Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, explores how the two first met in 1955.

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