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- ISBN 9781917458948
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Why Me? First, Account for Me, are the memoirs of famed film director Tony Palmer. His vast filmography of over one hundred films ranges from early works with The Beatles, Cream, Rory Gallagher, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa, to the famous portraits with and about Walton, Britten, Stravinsky, Maria Callas, André Previn, John Osborne, Leonard Cohen, Margot Fonteyn, Renée Fleming and Menuhin. His 7 hour 45 minutes film on Wagner, starring Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier and Vanessa Redgrave, was described by the Los Angeles Times as “one of the most beautiful films ever made”.
Tony Palmer is a British film director, writer, and critic renowned for over 100 films on music and culture. Educated at Lowestoft Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he began at the BBC’s Monitor alongside Ken Russell. His pioneering documentaries range from All My Loving (1968), capturing the rock revolution, to portraits of Leonard Cohen, Frank Zappa, Maria Callas, Britten, Wagner, and Shostakovich. Blending performance, history, and politics, Palmer’s films reveal music as a mirror of society. Winner of more than 40 international prizes, he remains a defining figure in cultural documentary filmmaking.
