Биография Тони Барроу

Добрый день. Помогите, пожалуйста найти биографию Тони Барроу.Облазила весь интернет, ничего не нашла(

Вот здесь немного о Тони:
https://www.beatles.ru/postman/forum_messages.asp...sg_id=10230&cpage=1&forum_id=0

Это немного не то, мне нужно конкретно о нем... где родился, где учился, как женился и т.д.

Barrow, Tony

At the age of seventeen, when he was still a sixth form student at Merchant Taylor's College in Crosby, Merseyside, Tony Barrow was appointed record reviewer for the Liverpool Echo. Under the name 'Disker', he reviewed the latest record releases and also included a small local chart of the top-selling singles.

He moved to London in 1954 to work at Decca Records where he became the only full-time writer of album sleeve notes in Britain, while still retaining his Echo column.

Brian Epstein sent a letter to Disker requesting a mention of the Beatles. The letter was passed on to Barrow who contacted Epstein and told him that he only wrote about actual recording acts. He suggested that Epstein contact a colleague on the Echo, columnist George Harrison. Having discovered that Tony worked for Decca, Brian once again contacted him requesting help with contacts at Decca. Barrow passed over the message and the Beatles auditioned for the company. When Barrow asked Mike Smith how the audition went. Smith was very positive and in his Disker column. Barrow wrote: 'Latest episode in the success story of Liverpool's instrumental group the Beatles. Commenting upon the outfit's recent recording test, Decca disc producer Mike Smith tells me that he thinks the Beatles are great. He has a tape of their audition which runs over thirty minutes and is convinced his label will be able to put the Beatles to good use. I'll keep you posted.'

However, Decca gave the Beatles the thumbs down. After Brian succeeded in gaining a Parlophone contract for the band, he approached Barrow for advice again. Tony pointed out that it would be sensible if he paid for independent public relations to plug the record and Brian offered him twenty pounds to produce a publicity kit for 'Love Me Do'. As he couldn't send out all the kits from his office at Decca, Tony noted that Tony Calder, who used to work in the same office at Decca, had left to set up a PR company with Andrew Loog Oldham. He contacted them and they were hired by Epstein to send out the press releases and arrange press interviews.

With the release of 'Love Me Do', Barrow wrote in his Disker column: 'John Lennon and Paul McCartney chant out their self-written lyrics of "Love Me Do", an infectious medium-paced ballad with an exceptionally haunting harmonica accompaniment. There's nothing startlingly distinguished about the simple, repetitive lyrics but "Love Me Do" relies more upon punchy ear-catching presentation. There's a refreshing do-it-yourself approach to the single.'

Epstein had offered the Beatles' PR account to Oldham, who turned it down. He asked Barrow if he would take on the task. Barrow also turned it down. He had a secure job at Decca and a steady girlfriend, Corinne, whom he married. He didn't want to take the chance of giving it all up for what seemed a risky venture. Brian then took him to lunch at the popular seafood restaurant Wheelers and offered him Ј32 per week, twice the amount he was getting at Decca - and he took up the offer.

Epstein asked him to find a London office for NEMS where he could handle the press work and he found premises at Service House, 13 Monmouth Street. Eventually hiring an assistant, Jo Berman, and a secretary, Valerie Sumpter.

As the organisation grew he graduated to plush offices in Argyle Street, next to the London Palladium, and as the Beatles were more or less a full-time account, he concentrated on the other NEMS artists while Brian employed various people such as Brian Somerville and Derek Taylor to look after the Beatles' press personally, although Tony did continue to handle their press activities from time to time.

He also managed to write prolifically: a series of souvenir magazines about the Beatles, the Cavern 'and other beat artists, record sleeve notes for the early Beatles albums and regular features about the Beatles' activities for Beatles Monthly. In many cases he had to use a pseudonym. Although he wasn't earning a fortune from NEMS Enterprises, his contract stated that any proceeds from freelance writing under his own name would have to be shared with the company, therefore Tony used the name Alistair Griffin for his books and Frederick James for his Beatles Monthly articles.

It was Tony who came up with the suggestion for the Beatles' Christmas records for fan club members.

After Brian Epstein's death he set up his own PR company, Tony Barrow International, retaining artists such as Cilia Black and expanding his activities until he had a roster of star names. Unfortunately, ill health caused him to retire in the late seventies and he moved to Morecambe on the north-west coast.

In 1980 he had recovered sufficiently to begin freelance writing and by 1981 had become prolific in his output with regular features in Beatles Monthly (this time under his own name) and syndicated columns in provincial publications, in addition to numerous commissions for record sleeves. He also sought out personalities with former Beatles associations in order to ghost their 'stories' for the national press. Angie McCartney was the subject of one of his series in the Daily Star, her daughter Ruth was another (in 19 magazine). In 1982 he penned P.S. We Love You for Mirror Books.

Tony's features for Beatles Monthly are of tremendous interest to readers due to the fact that Tony travelled quite extensively with the group. He was present on their American trips, their trip to the far east (and the harrowing experience in Manila), attended their meeting with Elvis Presley and, at the request of Paul, taped their final concert at Candlestick Park.

Bill Harry/The Beatles Encyclopedia

Tony Barrow
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Tony Barrow (born in Crosby, Merseyside, England, 1936) is a press officer who worked with The Beatles between 1962 and 1968[1]. He coined the phrase "The Fab Four", first using it in an early press release.
[edit] Life

While in the late Fifties when teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney were putting together their earliest group in one part of the city, Tony Barrow was presenting jazz bands and skiffle/folk groups at local dance halls and clubs across town in the north Merseyside suburb of Crosby. Educated locally at Merchant Taylors School he then studied languages at Durham University. In 1954, when he was still a 17-year-old sixth form schoolboy, he landed his first regular freelance writing job as pop/rock record reviewer for the Liverpool Echo, the largest-selling provincial evening newspaper in the UK.

At the beginning of the Sixties, while The Beatles paid their dues in the Hamburg clubs, Barrow moved from Crosby to London to work for the Decca Record Company where he wrote the liner notes that appeared on the back of LP album covers. From his new London base he continued to contribute his weekly record column to the Liverpool Echo[2] and when Liverpool record retailer Brian Epstein signed The Beatles to a management deal at the end of 1961 he contacted Barrow for professional advice. This led to an informal arrangement whereby Barrow became The Beatles' part-time press/publicity consultant which involved promoting the launch of the new EMI band from behind a desk at rival London record company Decca. His earliest task for Epstein was to co-ordinate a media publicity campaign to surround the release of the group's first UK single, "Love Me Do", on EMI's Parlophone label in October 1962. He was paid a one-off freelance fee of around 50 US dollars to compile The Beatles' initial press kit.

When Epstein promised to double his Decca salary, Barrow left the record company to join Epstein's new artists' management company, NEMS Enterprises, on a full-time basis in May 1963. Barrow opened Epstein's first London office and as head of the Press and Public Relations Division, began to promote the careers of not only The Fab Four but also Epstein's other artists from Cilla Black to Gerry & The Pacemakers, from Billy J Kramer With The Dakotas to The Fourmost. In view of his previous employment as a liner-note writer with Decca, it was taken for granted that he would do the same job for The Beatles and Epstein's other acts.

It was Barrow's idea to give out Beatles Christmas greetings to their fan club members. Barrow thought this goodwill gesture might limit the damage done to the group's reputation by delays in replying to an ever-increasing volume of fan mail. The Beatles were three weeks behind in answering membership applications. At the time he said facetiously that he thought of how the Queen always sent out yuletide greetings to her subject every year on UK radio and TV and he decided that The Beatles should "follow her fine example but in their own way". All members of the group's official fan club would receive an exclusive flexi-disc carrying messages from John, Paul, George and Ringo.[3] What started as a one-off damage limitation job grew into an eagerly anticipated annual event.

In 1965 and 1966 Tony Barrow traveled around the globe with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr on The Beatles' biggest, most lucrative and most dangerous international concert tours, conducting their massive daily press conferences wherever they were on the road, accompanying them on their very private "summit of the giants" meeting with Elvis Presley at his home in Bel Air, California, and setting up The Fab Four's media interviews and photo shoots when they returned home. One of Barrow's final tasks as The Beatles' Press Officer was to compile and edit the strip-cartoon story booklet which was part of the "Magical Mystery Tour" recording package at the end of 1967.

When The Beatles set up their own self-management operation, Apple Corps, in 1968, the year after Brian Epstein's death, Barrow's job as The Fab Four's publicist came to its natural end. He left NEMS Enterprises to set up his own independent show business PR consultancy, Tony Barrow international. Headquartered in London's Mayfair district, TBI and its sister company, Tony Barrow Management, represented many of Britain's top entertainers and recording stars in the Seventies (including The Kinks, The Bay City Rollers, The New Seekers, Bob Monkhouse) and an equally awesome list of bill-topping American artists (including David Cassidy, Gladys Knight, David Soul, The Monkees, Tony Bennett, The Jackson Five, Andy Williams, Neil Sedaka) for their European tours.

In 1980, partly because he disliked the unsavory images portrayed by the era's new wave of punk bands, Tony Barrow quit the PR business to return to freelance journalism, writing various books including a highly successful career guide, "Inside The Music Business" (co-authored with Julian Newby) and "John, Paul, George, Ringo & Me", his memoirs of the Sixties.

By 2007, he had become the last surviving professional writer from The Fab Four's original inner circle of business aides and associates and was continuing to take on selected writing and broadcasting assignments including (inevitably) some directly linked to his uniquely memorable years with The Beatles.