Philip Norman

Philip Norman joined the Sunday Times at the age of twenty-two and soon gained a reputation as Atticus columnist, and for his profiles of figures as diverse as PG Wodehouse, Little Richard and Colonel Gaddafi. In 1981 he published SHOUT!, a ground-breaking biography of the Beatles.

Although he resists classification as a rock biographer a musical theme pervades almost all of Philip's writing having published definitive works on the lives of Buddy Holly, Sir Elton John and Mick Jagger.