Did Elvis Fire the Colonel on Stage Like in ‘Elvis’?

When Elvis learns the truth, he calls the Colonel out on stage, revealing that he’s an illegal Dutch immigrant and firing him in front of his audience. As it turns out, this scene was embellished for dramatic effect.

Veteran music journalist Alanna Nash, who is the author of Colonel Tom Parker’s biography, The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley, told Variety that this isn’t how things went down in real life.

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