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Born in Liverpool, England; educated at Wymondham College, (Norfolk England) and the University of Wales (Bangor) where he graduated in Philosophy (Hons). He had edited his university's Arts and Science magazines as well as the student newspaper - which won a national award. From college, he joined Granada Television as a producer/director trainee and soon began splitting his career between television (BBC, ITN, Thames TV, LWT) and journalism, including feature writing for the national newspapers and magazines including The London Sunday Times, Observer, and Daily Telegraph, Rolling Stone and Time Out. He also authored"The Illustrated History of British Pop," was published in the UK and USA. In 1979, he took a six week assignment to produce music videos in the United States and has been here ever since, producing and writing television specials and series including the historic Daytime Emmy-winning "Live 8" world broadcast, the Emmy-winning 23 hour Live Earth world broadcast and the Emmy-nominated post 9/11 "Concert For New York City."

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Author of The Illustrated History of British Pop

Former music video producer - including (but not limited to) Bryan Adams, Jeff Beck, Blondie, Michael Bolton, Bon Jovi, David Bowie, Joe Cocker, Phil Collins, Alice Cooper, Crosby Stills & Nash, The Doobie Brothers, Gloria Estefan, Fleetwood Mac, Hall & Oates, Whitney Houston, Billy Idol, Iron Maiden, Jethro Tull, Billy Joel, Elton John, Journey, Genesis, Michael Jackson, Kansas, Chaka Khan, Kiss, Huey Lewis, Kenny Loggins, John Mellencamp, Van Morrison, Ozzy Osbourne, Prince, REO Speedwagon, The Rolling Stones, Rush, Santana, Bob Seger, Rod Stewart, Supertramp, Toto, Tina Turner, Van Halen, Yes and Frank Zappa.

In England, worked as a journalist/writer for Rolling Stone Magazine, Time Out, The Sunday Times (London), Sunday Telegraph (London), The Observer (London)

Produced and directed Live 8 World Feed which was part of the AOL Webcast which won the 2006 Daytime EMMY for Outstanding Achievement in Video Content for Non-traditional Delivery Platforms.

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