Biography of writer, journalist and broadcaster Anthony Thornton

Author of the critically-acclaimed biography of Pete Doherty and Carl Barat's band The Libertines

Anthony Thornton is the NME Reviews Editor and New Media Consultant.

He was born in 1971 in Cardiff, and was raised in Bristol, Peterborough, Grimsby and Horley, Surrey. He started working for the Birmingham Post in 1994 before writing for The Independent and Q magazine.

Following the editorship of dotmusic (RIP) he successfully edited NME.COM from 1998-2003, it became Europe’s most visited music news website under his editorship. During this time he was twice awarded the Online Editor Of The Year at the British Society Of Magazine Editors Awards (the Oscars for magazine editors) and once received the same accolade from the Periodical Publishers Association who twice awarded NME.COM the website of the year during his stewardship.

In 2003 he got his current job. In his career Anthony has interviewed people as varied as Bono, Sigur Ros, Kylie, Janet Jackson and Radiohead. He spotted the potential and wrote the first NME reviews for Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs and Bloc Party.

He spent two years with The Libertines, Babyshambles and Dirty Pretty Things. He was present at every key Libertines gig and was the only journalist to interview them on the night that The Libertines were reunited after Pete Doherty was released from prison.

The Libertines: Bound Together is his first book.