Tony Victor Parsons Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
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 The 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 ...
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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What Morrissey thinks about the Falklands matters about as much as what Tears For Fears think about the situation in the Sudan.
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Morrissey's controversial remarks on the Falkland Islands make you wonder - exactly what stance are Echo and the Bunnymen taking on the nuclear build-up in Iran?
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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.
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I think 2-D was enough for U2, and 3-D is one D too many. (On U2 3D (2007))
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Columnist on the London Daily Mirror [October 2004]
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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.