When Gene Austin arrived in Tampa in January of 1939 with his new, self-financed movie, Songs and Saddles, he was at loose ends. Austin had been a genuine pop superstar in the ‘20s (his 1927 hit, “My ...
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(NEXSTAR) – Tom Parker, singer and former member of the British band The Wanted, died Wednesday, his wife and the band announced on Instagram. He was 33 years old. “It is with the heaviest of hearts ...
What if we got it wrong about Colonel Tom Parker? That’s the provocative question raised by music historian Peter Guralnick’s latest book, “The Colonel and the King” (Little, Brown, 624 pp., out now), ...