The Colonel
The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley
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Narrateur(s):
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Gibson Frazier
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Auteur(s):
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Alanna Nash
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Alanna Nash - introduction
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In The Colonel, Alanna Nash, the author of Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch, explores in depth the amazing story of Colonel Tom Parker, the man behind the legend and the myth of Elvis Presley. The result is like the most riveting of real-life detective stories - one that will completely change your view of Presley's life, success, and death.
While scores of books have been written about Elvis Presley, this is the first meticulously researched biography of Tom Parker written by someone who knew him personally. And for anyone truly interested in the performer many consider the greatest and most influential of the 20th century, it is impossible to understand how Elvis came to be such a phenomenon without examining the life and mind of Parker, the man who virtually controlled Elvis' every move.
Alanna Nash has been covering the story of Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker since the day of Presley's funeral in Memphis, Tennessee. She was the first journalist allowed to view Presley's body, a compelling and surprising sight. But the profile of Parker attending the funeral in a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap was even stranger and led her to investigate the man behind the myth.
It has been known for 20 years that Thomas Andrew Parker was in fact born in Holland as Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk. But Nash has dug much deeper and, in a masterpiece of reporting, unearthed never-before-seen documents, including Parker's army records and psychiatric evaluations and the original police report of an unsolved murder case in Holland that lies at the heart of the Parker mystery. In the process of weighing the evidence, she answers the biggest riddle in the history of the music industry, as it becomes clear that every move Parker made in the handling of Elvis Presley - from why he never allowed Elvis to perform in Europe, to why he didn't halt Elvis' drug use, to why he put him in so many mediocre movies and even the Colonel's direction of Presley's army career - was designed to protect Parker's own secrets.
Filled with startling new material, her book challenges even the most familiar precepts of the Presley saga - everything we presumed about Parker's handling of the world's most famous entertainer must now be reevaluated in the light of information Nash reveals about Parker.
Elvis Presley, as one of Parker's unwitting victims, paid a major price for the Colonel's past and his overwhelming need to be more important than his client. As a result Presley was never allowed to reach his potential and died in drug-induced frustration over his stunted and mismanaged career.
In this astonishing, impeccably written, and vastly entertaining book, Nash proves that the only figure in American popular culture as fascinating as Elvis Presley is Colonel Tom Parker, the man who shaped Elvis, who in turn helped shape us.
©2017 Alanna Nash. All rights reserved. (P)2017 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.Vous pourriez aussi aimer...
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- Michael Becker
- 2023-01-27
Fascinating look at The Colonel
My father, having passed away in 2020, was a huge fan of Elvis and growing up I recall a lot of Elvis in our lives. As a tribute to my late father, I wanted to associate his life with that of the historical Elvis, and my father’s distain for the Tom Parker. After watching the movie, visited Graceland, spin his records, I wanted to learn more about the myth and legend of this much hated manager. So I dove in to this book!
What an amazing journey, the author truly captures the history, myths and legend of Col Tom. I felt transported back in time, and the reader does a great job with characterizing voices (which usually I find distracting) and brought the different historical figures to life.
At times, the book is raw and doesn’t sugar coat the honesty of what those people felt or shared, something I really loved and made it feel more human.
Definitely recommend!
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