Tom Watkins

21 September 1949 – 24 February 2020

Pop impresario, writer, composer, designer and fine art collector.

In 1981, Watkins and business partner [a2493170] set up the graphics design company [a1846922]. He then developed a parallel music management business, founding [a4118612] and was a co-founder of [l287617] in 1986.

Watkins managed acts such as [a7552] (1984-89), [a81613] (1986-90), [a9080] (1992-97), [a12986] (1989-90), [a86657] (1994-95), [a146473], [a56591], [a2387361] etc.

He also wrote most of [a81613] material together with [a171183] under the deliberately confusing alias [a714444].