Tony Palmer

This ‘brilliant but difficult’ ex-Lowestoft Grammar School pupil from Suffolk, England was an Observer reviewer for whom pop meant little, until a belated admiration for the latter-day Beatles’ ‘joyful music-making that only the ignorant won’t hear’. He ventured into authorship with Created Under A Poor Indication (an encapsulation of his newspapers commentaries on pop) and tv production with the favorite culture journal How IT REALLY IS as well as the 17-component series, ALL YOU HAVE TO Is Like. Both like a BBC worker and freelance, Palmer was in charge of more than 40 documentaries, including Cream’s farewell concert and portraits of varied subjects such as for example Jack port Bruce, Liberace, Benjamin Britten and Igor Stravinsky. Palmer had written a superb accounts from the infamous Aged Bailey ‘Oz Trial’, The Tests Of Oz (1971). With Frank Zappa, he co-directed 200 Motels, a slow ‘dream opera’ from the Moms Of Invention’s antics on tour – as well as the 1st cinema film to hire video equipment. Nevertheless, after ructions with Zappa, Palmer cleaned his hands from the film and tore it to items in his Observer column. In creative personal debt to Ken Russell, the costly Wagner (starring Richard Burton) was his 1st attempt at directing stars. Since that time, his career is not marked by achievement but more industrial endeavors by Palmer in the foreseeable future cannot be reduced.