Op dezelfde dag als Jan Mestdagh werd zijn Engelse confrater Tony Palmer geboren (foto Peperudi via Wikipedia). Op Wikipedia zwijgt men echter zedig over diens journalistieke verleden. Men legt er vooral de nadruk op zijn werk als regisseur: “His work includes over 100 films, ranging from early works with The Beatles, Cream, Jimi Hendrix and Rory Gallagher (Irish Tour ’74), to his classical portraits which include profiles of Maria Callas, Julian Lloyd Webber and Frank Zappa (200 Motels). He is also a stage director of theatre and opera.” (In Saint Petersburg, he directed the Russian premiere of Parsifal, conducted by Valery Gergiev, with Plácido Domingo and he became the first Western director ever to work at the Bolshoi in Moscow. On the West End stage he has directed the world premiere of John Osborne‘s Look Back in Anger Part Two, Déjà Vu.)