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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rachel Martin speaks with the celebrated writer about Looking to Get Lost, an essay collection based on his interviews with legends of early rock... Peter Guralnick Is 'Looking To Get Lost' In The ...

Though Peter Guralnick is one of our most acclaimed music historians, with landmark biographies of Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips and Sam Cooke, he is, as he will tell you, a fan first. And that’s what ...

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 ...

“Long before the existence of Crawdaddy! or Fusion or Rolling Stone,” Peter Guralnick wrote in his first book, Feel Like Going Home, “I wanted to do a history of Sun Records.” That was 1971. Now, more ...