Tony Tyler RIP

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Ex-associate editor of the NME, gave Burchill, Parsons, Morley and Penman their start, but then decided that he hated rock and roll dies of cancer at 62.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Aww. Tyler's 'I hate rock and roll' was the first Rock Book I ever read. The bit about putting a pic of Dave Hill on the cover of NME is still very funny.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa, I only just noticed The Tolkien Companion connection. Great reference book, actually.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

The whole obit is a treat, actually! A life lived with spirit to the end by all accounts.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Fascinated early on by the very notion of computers, Tony Tyler plunged into that emerging world, trying to bring the same sense of NME absurdity to Big K, a computer magazine he started in 1983, but which folded.

When I spotted the thread title, I thought, "I know that name...", and this is why. A veteran of the dawn of home computing, I have fond memories of Big K, a copy or two of which may yet survive in a box in the attic of my parents' house. I remember that even at the age of ten, I was impressed by Tyler's irreverent editorial style.

R.I.P.

― Palomino (Palomino), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

Splendid obit by Charles Shaar Murray in yesterday's Guardian.
Sounds like a real life Zelig, a life you couldn't make up as it would be considered too outlandish. For inadvertently helping shape my world view I salute him.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

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