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Elvis Presley And Colonel Tom Parker Biography Shoots to Bestseller List Following Baz Luhrmann Biopic

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Alanna Nash’s 2010 biography on Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley has become a No. 1 bestseller on Amazon following Baz Luhrmann’s new “Elvis” biopic that premiered this past weekend.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 accounts of the relationship between Presley and his infamous manager.Unlike most books about The King, “The Colonel” investigates how Elvis became such a phenomenon not through the artist himself but through the life of Thomas Andrew Parker, a mysterious figure known for being one of the most controlling managers in music history.

Joining Presley in 1955, Parker can be credited with being one of the key architects in Presley’s career. Nash began her reporting after attending Presley’s funeral in 1977.

She was one of the only journalists to be afforded the opportunity to view Elvis’s remains but it was the sight of The Colonel, dressed in a Hawaiian t-shirt and baseball cap at the funeral, that peaked her interest.In her 448-page tome, Nash uncovers never-before-seen documents that unearth Parker’s biggest secrets, many of which explain the peculiar choices he made throughout Presley’s career.

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