11 Facts About Tony Barrow

Tony Barrow was an English press officer who worked with the Beatles between 1962 and 1968.

Tony Barrow coined the phrase "the Fab Four", first using it in an early press release.

At the beginning of the 1960s, while the Beatles worked in the Hamburg clubs, Tony Barrow moved from Crosby to London to work for the Decca Record Company, where he wrote the liner notes that appeared on the back of LP album covers.

Tony Barrow then arranged to get the Beatles an audition with Decca, who rejected them.

That led to an informal arrangement whereby Tony Barrow became the Beatles' part-time press-publicity consultant, which involved promoting the launch of the new EMI band from behind a desk at rival London record company Decca.

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Tony Barrow was paid a one-off freelance fee of £20 to compile the Beatles' initial press kit.

When Epstein promised to double his Decca salary, Tony Barrow left the record company in May 1963 to join Epstein's new artists' management company, NEMS Enterprises, on a full-time basis.

Tony Barrow saw Beatlemania as beginning with the band's appearance on Sunday Night at the London Palladium on 13 October 1963, at which point he no longer had to contact the press but had the press contacting him instead.

Tony Barrow thought that goodwill gesture might limit the damage done to the group's reputation by delays in replying to an ever-increasing volume of fan mail.

Tony Barrow left NEMS Enterprises to set up his own independent show business PR consultancy, Tony Barrow International.

Contrary to newspaper reports that Tony Barrow died at his home in Morecambe, Lancashire, he actually died in the Royal Lancaster Infirmary on 14 May 2016, three days after his 80th birthday.