Why Me? First, Account for Me
Adventures in the Music and Film Trade
by Tony Palmer

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Why Me? First, Account for Me, are the memoirs of famed film director Tony Palmer.
Why Me? First, Account for Me, are the memoirs of famed film director Tony Palmer. His vast filmography of over one hundred films ranges from early works with The Beatles, Cream, Rory Gallagher, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa, to the famous portraits with and about Walton, Britten, Stravinsky, Maria Callas, André Previn, John Osborne, Leonard Cohen, Margot Fonteyn, Renée Fleming and Menuhin. His 7 hour 45 minutes film on Wagner, starring Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier and Vanessa Redgrave, was described by the Los Angeles Times as “one of the most beautiful films ever made”.
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