Tony Parsons the man who went from credibility to Toryland.
The weekly music magazine New Musical Express (NME) advertised for new writers in the summer of 1976, Parsons submitted a novel to the editor, Nick Logan, and was rewarded with a staff writer job. For the next three years he wrote about new music. He wrote the first cover story on the Clash and features on the Sex Pistols, Blondie, Talking Heads, the Ramones, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, the New York Dolls, Buzzcocks, and Led Zeppelin among others.
For most of the 1980s, Parsons struggled to make a living as a freelance writer. His career started to recover in 1990 when he wrote Bare, an authorised biography of pop star George Michael. Despite the absence of a written contract with the singer, proceeds from the book were split equally between the two men. However, they fell out in 1999 after an interview Michael had given to Parsons was published in the Daily Mirror.
Then he veered to the right by writing for The Sun, The Daily Telegraph and GQ magazine and then in 2015 he became been a supporter of the Conservative Party.
In 2007, Parsons wrote a series of articles about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann from a beach in the Algarve in Portugal, in the Daily Mail. The tone with which these articles were written was later described as having a “touch of arrogant xenophobia” by The Guardian‘s Marcel Berlins. The Press Complaints Commission that year received 485 complaints, a huge increase in the number of complaints in comparison to previous years, his article on the McCann affair receiving the most complaints.
In 2003 he attacked Stewart Lee in a GQ article and below is what is known in the trade as REVENGE.
Douglas James
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