Elvis Presley biographer Peter Guralnick's latest book, "The Colonel and the King," is the story of a partnership that rocked ...

Elvis Presley biographer Peter Guralnick's latest book traces the relationship between the King and Colonel Tom Parker, a ...

“In any book I do, I just want to paint a true picture,” said author and historian Peter Guralnick. “And the picture is not always the one that I might choose or want, but it’s the truth that needs to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Named one of America’s Greatest Disruptors in 2021 by Newsweek I had the pleasure to speak with Guralnick on the eve of him ...

If you want to know what Elvis' fur lampshade looks like, you can go to Graceland, but if you want to know what Elvis was really like, you have to read Peter Guralnick's classic two-volume biography ...

There's no real substitute for the sound of Sam Cooke's music, but the detailed descriptions of his recordings throughout this masterful biography are the next best thing to wearing headphones while ...

Then there was the time when Solomon Burke tried to get his journalist friend to set up a temporary bank account, to help him arrange a shady real estate deal. Peter Guralnick, the writer, told Burke, ...

A decade after the release of his acclaimed biography of Sam Cooke, Peter Guralnick is back with a marvelous new book, “Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n’ Roll” (Little, Brown and Company, ...

At almost 3 in the morning of Dec. 11, 1965, in a seedy motel on Figueroa Avenue in South Central Los Angeles, a drunken, enraged man wearing nothing but his sport coat and a pair of shoes attacked a ...

Peter Guralnick's name is at the top of many people's lists of greatest music critics. Those people are wrong. It's not that Guralnick's words aren't evocative, empathetic and well-chosen. Or that he ...