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- Birth nameTony Victor Parsons
- Born in 1955 in Essex, England, Tony Parsons started working for the NME (New Musical Express) as a punk journalist in 1976, going on the road with bands like Sex Pistols. He married and divorced fellow journalist, Julie Burchill. They had a son, Bobby Parsons, together. It is widely believed that Parsons' novel Man and Boy (2002) is semi-autobiographical He has now re-married, and lives in London. Still working as a journalist, he has a regular column in The Mirror and participates in the BBC arts programme, Late Review (1994). Throughout his career, he has also written for The Daily Mail, GQ, The Face, Arena, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Sunday Times and Elle. His second novel, "One For My Baby", was published in 2001, and his third, "The Family Way", in 2004.- IMDb mini biography by: anonymous
- SpousesYuriko(July 4, 1992 - present) (1 child)Julie Burchill(1976 - 1984) (divorced, 1 child)
- For 6 years, he guested on BBC TV's Late Review (1994).
- One son, Bobby Parsons, with Julie Burchill.
- Joined the Writers' Guild of America (WGA) after Julia Roberts purchased the movie rights to his third novel, "The Family Way," a project that was ultimately shelved.
- Columnist on the London Daily Mirror
- [on U2 3D (2007)] I think 2-D was enough for U2, and 3-D is one D too many.
- It is very difficult to get the people of our country to agree about anything. So much divides us in the UK. The gap between north and south, rich and poor, the various stratas of the class system. At regular intervals the politicians agonise about what it means to be British. But we don't even know if our country will survive a referendum in Scotland. National disunity - that is our distinguishing feature, as in the old Likely Lads sketch where Terry Collier goes through a list of all the people he loathes, starting with southerners, and ends up by concluding that he hates the bloke who lives next door.
- Morrissey's controversial remarks on the Falkland Islands make you wonder - exactly what stance are Echo & The Bunnymen taking on the nuclear build-up in Iran?
- What Morrissey thinks about the Falklands matters about as much as what Tears for Fears think about the situation in the Sudan.
- There was a time when we believed in the same things, when we shared a national vision, when we loved the same values. But that was the Second World War. It has all been downhill since. A bit like Morrissey's solo career.
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