Richard Wootton

Former school teacher in South London who became freelance writer for Melody Maker and Time Out magazines, and music enthusiast Now resides in London, England In 1984 he launched Richard Wootton Publicity, an independent company providing press and/or radio and TV services for major and independent record labels on singer-songwriters Traveled across the United States during the middle 1970s and the early 1980s looking for and commenting on clubs that play live music He also visited record stores, radio stations, recording studios, record producers, and musicians. What he found was presented in Honky Tonkin' —A Travel Guide to American Music (1977) Has also written books on John Lennon and Elvis Presley, but he has focused more on country music than rock and roll Wootton no longer writes books because he has devoted his career in recent years to the publicity business