Paul Morley wrote for the
NME from 1977 to 1983 when the magazine was at its most successful and notorious. An influential collection of his journalism from this period, Ask, was published in 1987 by Faber and Faber. He wrote for the first few issues of
The Face, was a regular contributor to
Blitz, and was one of the first presenters of BBCs "The Late Show".
In 1983 he formed
ZTT with
Trevor Horn and Jill Sinclair. Morley was a founder member of the
Art Of Noise, The and was instrumental in the success of
Frankie Goes To Hollywood. He dreamt up the 'Frankie Say...' t-shirts, as worn over the years by everyone from Jennifer Aniston to Homer Simpson. He was married to
Claudia Brücken, although they have since separated.
He currently writes for
Esquire,
The Observer and
The Sunday Telegraph and contributes to numerous TV and radio programmes, including the "Top Ten" series on Channel 4 and BBC's "Newsnight Review".
His memoir
Nothing was published to great acclaim by Faber in 2000. His 2003 book
Words & Music has been described in
The Guardian as 'the best book about pop I had ever read' and 'the weirdest book about pop I had ever read'.
In 2004 Morley and
James Banbury formed a new label,
ServiceAV.