Paul Flattery was born in Liverpool, England. He was educated at Wymondham College and Thetford Grammar (Thomas Paine went there) and the University of Wales (Bangor) - where he got a degree in Philosophy (Hons). He edited the University's Arts and Science magazines as well as the student newspaper "Forecast" - which won a national award and joined Granada Television as a producer/director trainee. He began splitting his career between British television (BBC, ITN, Thames TV, LWT) and journalism, including feature writing for the national newspapers and magazines including The TImes, 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. After American Idol and Emmy winning director Bruce Gowers' video of Queen's"Bohemian Rhapsody was a sensation in the UK, pretty much creating the music video industry there overnight, the agent who represented both Gowers and Flattery, created, with them, one of the first music video production companies -Jon Roseman Productions International. Flattery soon moved to Los Angeles to establish the US operations of the company and remained there ever since in various music video and television production partnerships and as an independent producer/writer 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 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" as well as award s/event shows such as Teen Choice Award s, Kids Choice Award s, Critic's Choice Award s, the annual American Cinematheque Award ,Billboard Music Award s, Miss America, etc...
Author of The Illustrated History of British PopFormer music video producer - including (but not limited to) Bryan Adams , Jeff Beck , Blondie , Michael Bolton , Bon Jovi , David Bowie , Joe Cocker , Phil Collins , Alice Cooper , Crosby Stills & Nash , The Doobie Brothers , Gloria Estefan , Fleetwood Mac , Hall & Oates , Whitney Houston , Billy Idol , Iron Maiden , Jethro Tull , Billy Joel , Elton John , Journey , Genesis , Michael Jackson , Kansas , Chaka Khan , Kiss, Huey Lewis , Kenny Loggins , John Mellencamp , Van Morrison , Ozzy Osbourne , Prince , REO Speedwagon , The Rolling Stones , Rush , Santana , Bob Seger , Rod Stewart , Supertramp, Toto, Tina Turner , Van Halen , Yes and Frank Zappa .In England, worked as a journalist/writer for Rolling Stone Magazine, Time Out, The Sunday Times (London), Sunday Telegraph (London), The Observer (London)Produced and directed Live 8 World Feed which was part of the AOL Webcast which won the 2006 Daytime EMMY for Outstanding Achievement in Video Content for Non-traditional Delivery Platforms.