Paul Flattery

Paul Flattery was born in Liverpool, England. He was educated at Wymondham College and Thetford Grammar (one of England's oldest schools) and the University of Wales (now Bangor University) where he got a degree in Philosophy. He edited the University's Arts and Science magazines as well as the student newspaper "Forecast" which won a national award. After graduating, he joined Granada Television as a producer/director trainee and soon began splitting his career between British television (BBC, ITN, Thames TV, LWT) and journalism, including writing for the national newspapers and magazines including The Sunday Times, Guardian , Observer, Daily Telegraph, Time Out and Rolling Stone magazine. He also wrote "The Illustrated History of British Pop," which was published in the UK and USA. In 1978, he joined one of the first music video production companies (Jon Roseman Productions International) with Emmy winning director Bruce Gowers whose video of Queen's"Bohemian Rhapsody was a sensation in the UK. Flattery soon moved to Los Angeles to run the US operations of the company and has been here ever since in various music video and television production partnerships. As well as music videos, he began producing TV concerts, including award-winning ones for Phil Collins, Gloria Estefan, Hall & Oates, Tina Turner and Genesis....and then producing and/or writing TV specials and series including: the historic Daytime Emmy-winning "Live 8" world broadcast, the Emmy-winning 23 hour Live Earth world broadcast and the Emmy-nominated post 9/11 "Concert For New York City." Other awards/event shows include: Kids Choice Awards, Creative Arts Emmys, Daytime Emmys, Critic's Choice Awards (inc. the Super Awards, RealTV Awards and Documentary Awards), the American Cinematheque Award, Miss America, DIvas, Rock Honors etc... He was on the teams that, separately, created Billboard Music Awards and Teen Choice Awards.