Alan G. Parker is a British documentary film director best known for his films Who Killed Nancy?, Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyers Cut and It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond. He has also written several books about rock musicians and their lives.
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Early life and career
Parker was born in Lancashire, England. As a child, he was diagnosed with macrocephaly.
Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Parker worked as a press officer via Judy Totton Publicity and later in the catalogue department of EMI Records in London. At EMI, Parker worked with various punk and rock bands such as Buzzcocks, The Stranglers and Stiff Little Fingers. During that time, he also wrote for magazines and published books about Sid Vicious, the Clash and Stiff Little Fingers.
In 2009 Parker directed Who Killed Nancy? and Monty Python: Almost The Truth - The Lawyers Cut, which was nominated for six Emmy awards. Parker also directed the documentary It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond, released in 2017.
Films
Who Killed Nancy? (2009)
Love Kills – The Story of Sid and the Pistols (2007) (documentary included in a 2007 DVD reissue of Sid and Nancy)
Monty Python – Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut) (2009)
The David Essex Story
Hello Quo (about Status Quo) (2012)
Rebel Truce – The History of the Clash (2007)
Never Mind the Sex Pistols (2005)
The Making of All Mod Cons (contributor) (2006)
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond (2017)
Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade (2025)
Books
The Who by Numbers: The Story of the Who Through Their Music (2009): ISBN 1900924919
Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent (2007): ISBN 0752875469
Cum On, Feel the Noize: The Story of Slade (2006): ISBN 1844421511
Vicious: Too Fast to Live (2004): ISBN 1840681101
Stiff Little Fingers: Song by Song (2003): ISBN 186074513X
The Clash: Rat Patrol from Fort Bragg (2003):ISBN 0953572498
John Lennon & the FBI Files (2003): ISBN 1860745229
Satellite: Sex Pistols (1999): ISBN 0953572439
Sid’s Way: Sid Vicious (1991): ISBN 071192483X