WI: Col. Tom Parker dies in1961

Depending on who becomes manager he quite possibly has a better life and career.

Gets to do overseas shows and make a lot more money.

Less pressure to do grueling US road trips.

Possibly more of a movie career.
 
What the Colonel really the person who destroyed Elvis? I mean, I know Elvis ended up on a bad path, becoming trapped in a Rhinestone encrusted Vegas nightmare surrounded by Yes Men who used him, and destroying himself with food and drugs, but was the Colonel the one that put him there?
 
I'll say this: Parker didn't help Elvis. Remove Parker and maybe Elvis avoids some of what happened to him in the late 1970s.
 
I'll say this: Parker didn't help Elvis. Remove Parker and maybe Elvis avoids some of what happened to him in the late 1970s.

But, and I'm saying this as someone who knows little of the dynamics of Elvis, wasn't it more the whole Memphis Mafia and the others who just mooched and exploited him and told him what he wanted to hear that really led him to where he was by the end?
 
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