Upcoming book by Todd Slaughter: Elvis, The Colonel and Me - The Elephant in the Room

[On Tape 1972]

To be released on December 3rd. The book includes hundreds of images and Todd Slaughter's recollections of meeting both Elvis and the Colonel.

Source: https://elv75.blogspot.com/2024/10/october-26-elvis-colonel-and-me.html

[T3ddy-be@r]

Look forward to it

[drjohncarpenter]

To be released on December 3rd. The book includes hundreds of images and Todd Slaughter's recollections of meeting both Elvis and the Colonel.

Source: https://elv75.blogspot.com/2024/10/october-26-elvis-colonel-and-me.html

Unless I'm confused, this is the book by U.K. fan Todd Slaughter we've been hearing about for at least two and a half years.

In an April 2022 discussion many found the previews quite dubious:

Read all about it here:


A new book about Colonel Parker by Todd Slaughter
https://www.elvis-collectors.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1883015#p1883015

[T3ddy-be@r]

I have sent him a message asking the question. He is more than just a fan though he ran the official Elvis Presley Fan Club of Great Britain for years, is a broadcaster and has met both Elvis and Colonel.

[elvis-fan]

Isn't Todd the guy presenting Elvis with an award (prior to his final concert) at the airport in Indianapolis in June '77?

[T3ddy-be@r]

Yes Todd is that guy. He tells me the book is not being published until Dec 3rd.

[martin018]

He did publish a paperback on Colonel Parker a couple of years ago.

[JohanD]

He did publish a paperback on Colonel Parker a couple of years ago.

Indeed, in 2021, a nice little book.

[dougkapp]

Last year a Brazilian newspaper published an interview with Peter Guralnick (last year the biography written by Guralnick was released in Brazil) and he commented that he was writing a book about Tom Parker, as a source he had hundreds of letters written and received by Cel.

[jurasic1968]

If this is true l hope that this will be a balanced book about Parker. Because in first two books about Elvis Parker was described almost always in a positive light.