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 will not hear'. He ventured into authorship with Born Under A Bad Sign (an encapsulation of his newspaper commentaries on pop) and television production with the popular culture magazine How It Is and the 17-part series, All You Need Is Love. Both as a BBC employee and freelance, Palmer was responsible for over 40 documentaries, including Crea...