Alan G. Parker was born in Lancashire, England on 30 April 1965 and is a British Film Director, six times EMMY nominated he also wrote a number of books about rock musicians and their lives, while contributing to various music and film magazines.

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Parker is a member of Directors UK, and a fellow of the Charles Dickens society. He stopped writing books in 2009 in order to concentrate on movies. As a Director he is best known for his work on 'Hello Quo! - The Official Status Quo Story' (Anchor Bay Pictures/Studio Canal), 'Who Killed Nancy?' (Peace Arch Entertainment), 'Monty Python: Almost The Truth - The Lawyers Cut' (Eagle Entertainment) and 'It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles; Sgt. Pepper & Beyond' (Kaleidoscope Entertainment/Studio Canal). As of June 2022^[update], he was working on a big screen documentary about John Lennon's last decade titled 'Borrowed Time'.^{[citation needed]}

Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Parker worked as a press officer (Judy Totton Publicity) and spent a number of years in the catalogue department at EMI Records in London (UK). He contributed to a number of magazines including; Record Collector, ICE magazine, Spiral Scratch, Bizarre magazine and Kerrang![1] He conducted a taped audio interview with Phil Hendriks, frontman of Lancashire punk band The Stiffs, for a bonus track on their 2001 EMI-released album Innocent Bystanders, one of many albums that Parker compiled for the label. Parker worked directly in his time at EMI Records with groups including; Buzzcocks, The Stranglers, Stiff Little Fingers and The Monty Python team. Parker recently became a director of RAG Productions Ltd.

Films directed

• Who Killed Nancy? (2009)
• Love Kills (2007) (documentary included in a 2007 DVD-reissue of Sid and Nancy)
• Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut) (2009)
• The David Essex Story
• Hello Quo - The Official Status Quo Movie (2012)[2]
• Rebel Truce - The History of The Clash (2007)
• Never Mind the Sex Pistols (2005)
• The Making of All Mod Cons - The Jam (dir. Don Letts, contributor) (2006)
• It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond (2017)

Books published

• The Who by Numbers: The Story of The Who Through Their Music, 2009 ISBN 1900924919
• Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent, 2007 ISBN 0752875469
• Cum On, Feel the Noize: The Story of Slade, 2006 ISBN 1844421511
• Vicious: Too Fast to Live, 2004 ISBN 1840681101
• Stiff Little Fingers: Song by Song, 2003 ISBN 186074513X
• The Clash: Rat Patrol from Fort Bragg, 2003 ISBN 0953572498
• John Lennon & The FBI Files, 2003 ISBN 1860745229
• Satellite: Sex Pistols, 1999 ISBN 0953572439
• Sid’s Way: Sid Vicious, 1991 ISBN 071192483X
• Hardcore Superstar: Traci Lords

Young Flesh Required: Sex Pistols 2011

References

External links

• Alan G. Parker at IMDb

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