The Dutch author and journalist Dirk Vellinga died this weekend, he was 59. In 1988 Dirk Vellenga wrote the book "Elvis And The Colonel" on Elvis Dutch manager. Apart from that book, he worked as a journalist for the Dutch Breda based news paper De Stem. Vellenga�s book was soon translated in English, and it was this very book that inspired TV makers for the DVD-documentary with the same title. In her book on Parker, Alanna Nash refers to Vellenga as well.