Tony Tyler, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Tony Tyler

British writer-musician

Date of Birth: 31-Oct-1943

Date of Death: 28-Oct-2006

Profession: writer, journalist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Tony Tyler

  • James Edward Anthony Tyler (31 October 1943 in Bristol – 28 October 2006 in Hastings, East Sussex) was a British writer who authored several books and wrote for the New Musical Express, Macworld, MacUser, PC Pro and Computer Shopper. After being expelled from school, Tyler became a police cadet, but quit when told his stammer was so extreme he would never be able to give evidence in court.
  • He found employment as a trainee reporter on a Merseyside paper. His best friend Tim Craig (later the father of the actor Daniel Craig) was a merchant seaman.
  • Tyler stowed away on his Hamburg-bound ship, aware that the Beatles — whom he vaguely knew — were resident in the German port.
  • He later joined the Royal Tank Regiment, with which he served in Aden.
  • In 1966, his father died, and he bought himself and two friends out of the army. Tyler subsequently found himself playing Hammond organ in a soul group based in Italy, the Patrick Samson Set; they had a No 1 there with a cover of "A Whiter Shade of Pale". Back in London in 1969, he became publicist for EG Management, who cared for the careers of T.
  • Rex, King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. He was brought into the NME in 1972 by the editor Alan Smith, and was described as "inspirational" by his colleagues of the time.
  • He co-wrote (with Roy Carr) The Beatles: An Illustrated Record (1975), the first critical assessment of the complete works of The Beatles after their split.
  • Under the name J.
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  • Tyler, he authored The Tolkien Companion (1976) [revised and updated as The Complete Tolkien Companion (2002)].
  • In 1977 each of these works was in the New York Times Top Ten.
  • In 1984 he wrote the revisionist I Hate Rock & Roll, a diatribe against the music that he had documented for much of his life. In 1982, Tyler married his second wife, Kate Phillips, an NME staff writer: at the time of his death they had been together for 31 years.
  • They bought a house overlooking the sea outside Hastings.

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