When Colonel Tom Parker approached Sam Phillips in 1955 with a proposal to arrange a recording contract for a little-known, ...

On his paternal side, Elvis' father, Vernon Presley, was of Irish, German, Scottish and English ancestry. Vernon Presley was a descendant of the Harrison family of Virginia through his mother, Minnie ...

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If you're an Elvis fan looking to visit the key stops on the King's journey, here are six sites within driving distance of ...

Biographer Peter Guralnick shows us that loving Elvis also means loving Colonel Parker, no matter how grudgingly.

In his new book, acclaimed music historian and Elvis biographer Peter Guralnick focuses on Colonel Tom Parker’s side of the ...

Peter Guralnick's new book, “The Colonel and the King,” is focused on the man who elevated Elvis Presley to superstardom: ...

Tom Lehrer, the musical satirist and onetime mathematical prodigy whose lampooning lyrics skewered racism, the Catholic Church, marriage and the Cold War, has died. He was 97. Friends told Variety … ...

Hall of Famers CC Sabathia and Dave Parker played briefly for the Brewers. Radio announcer Tom Hamilton is a native of Waterloo.

Tom Lehrer, an acerbic songwriter and Harvard-trained mathematician who rose to fame in the 1950s and ’60s by pillorying the sensibilities of the day, has died at age 97. Lehrer died at his home ...

Tom Lehrer, the math prodigy who became an influential musical satirist with his barbed views of American social and political life in the 1950s and 1960s, has died at the age of 97, according to ...