Tony Fletcher

Tony Fletcher (born April 23,1964) is a music journalist best known for his biographies of drummer Keith Moon and the band R.E.M..

Born in Yorkshire, England. Fletcher was inspired by the London punk rock movement and started a fanzine as a thirteen-year-old schoolboy which he named "Jamming!". The magazine developed over the next eight years into an independent alternative to more established music magazines of the day such as the NME and Melody Maker. This led to Fletcher presenting TV programmes and networking with numerous post-punk figures including Paul Weller and Echo and The Bunnymen, the latter of which were the subject of his first book published in 1987. He has two children and is married to Posie.

Fletcher then juggled band and record label management before moving to New York in the late 80s, where he also became involved with DJing, club promotion and music industry consultant.

His first novel, "Hedonism", was published in 2003.

External links

* [http://www.ijamming.net/ Tony Fletcher's iJamming! website]