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Tom Watkins is a pop impresario, writer, composer, designer and fine art collector.

ins studied at the London College Of Furniture and worked as a designer for Terence Conran
Terence Conran

Sir Terence Orby Conran, Chartered_Society_of_Designers, is an England designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer....
. Later he worked with graphic designer Mark Farrow on famous minimalist Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys are an English people electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main Singing, Keyboard instruments and occasionally guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards and occasionally on vocals....
 album covers including Please, Actually and Introspective.

olific songwriter, Watkin's concentrated on composing pop music and his credits include 'When Will I Be Famous', I Owe You Nothing
I Owe You Nothing

"I Owe You Nothing" is a popular single by Bros.Written by Nicky Graham and Tom Watkins and produced by Watkins, "I Owe You Nothing" was boyband Bros's sole UK number one single, spending two weeks at the top in June 1988....
 and 'Drop The Boy' for Bros
Bros

Bros were a British boy band active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, consisting of twin brothers Matt Goss and Luke Goss along with Craig Logan....
, 'Stay Another Day' for East17 and 'Heartbeat' for Jimmy Somerville
Jimmy Somerville

Jimmy Somerville is a Scotland pop music singer, born and raised in Glasgow. He had considerable success in the 1980s with the pop groups Bronski Beat and Communards , and has also had a successful solo career....
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Tom Watkins is a pop impresario, writer, composer, designer and fine art collector.

Early Career

Watkins studied at the London College Of Furniture and worked as a designer for Terence Conran
Terence Conran

Sir Terence Orby Conran, Chartered_Society_of_Designers, is an England designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer....
. Later he worked with graphic designer Mark Farrow on famous minimalist Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys are an English people electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main Singing, Keyboard instruments and occasionally guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards and occasionally on vocals....
 album covers including Please, Actually and Introspective.

Songwriting

A prolific songwriter, Watkin's concentrated on composing pop music and his credits include 'When Will I Be Famous', I Owe You Nothing
I Owe You Nothing

"I Owe You Nothing" is a popular single by Bros.Written by Nicky Graham and Tom Watkins and produced by Watkins, "I Owe You Nothing" was boyband Bros's sole UK number one single, spending two weeks at the top in June 1988....
 and 'Drop The Boy' for Bros
Bros

Bros were a British boy band active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, consisting of twin brothers Matt Goss and Luke Goss along with Craig Logan....
, 'Stay Another Day' for East17 and 'Heartbeat' for Jimmy Somerville
Jimmy Somerville

Jimmy Somerville is a Scotland pop music singer, born and raised in Glasgow. He had considerable success in the 1980s with the pop groups Bronski Beat and Communards , and has also had a successful solo career....
. "I Owe You Nothing" was boyband Bros
Bros

Bros were a British boy band active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, consisting of twin brothers Matt Goss and Luke Goss along with Craig Logan....
's sole UK number one single, spending two weeks at the top in June 1988.

Music Management

In the 1980s and 1990s Watkins managed numerous successful pop bands including Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys are an English people electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main Singing, Keyboard instruments and occasionally guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards and occasionally on vocals....
, East 17
East 17

For the postcode, see E postal area.East 17 are an England pop music boy band founded in 1992.The group name came from the UK postcodes for Walthamstow, an area of London between the old East End and the Essex commuter belt....
 and Bros
Bros

Bros were a British boy band active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, consisting of twin brothers Matt Goss and Luke Goss along with Craig Logan....
. He has also worked with a wide number of musicians including Wham!
WHAM!

Wham! was a pop music band formed in 1981 by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. It was briefly known in the United States as Wham!-UK because of a naming conflict with another band....
; Billie Piper
Billie Piper

Billie Paul Piper is an English singer and actress.She began her career as a pop music singer when she was a teenager but is now best known for portraying Rose Tyler, companion to Doctor in the television series Doctor Who from 2005 to 2006, a role she reprised in 2008....
; Art of Noise; Faith, Hope & Charity; Martine McCutcheon
Martine McCutcheon

Martine McCutcheon is an England singer, television personality and Laurence Olivier Award-winning actor. McCutcheon had minor success as one third of the pop group Milan in the early 1990s; however, it was her role as Tiffany Mitchell in BBC's EastEnders that made her a household name in the UK in 1995....
 and Grace Jones
Grace Jones

Grace Jones is a Jamaican?United States singer, Model , and actor....
. In 1989 he worked with the Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys are an English people electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main Singing, Keyboard instruments and occasionally guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards and occasionally on vocals....
 and Liza Minnelli
Liza Minnelli

Liza May Minnelli is an United Statesn actress and singer. She is the daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and Garland's second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli....
 on her breakthrough album Results.

Design

Watkins is a prolific fine art collector, specialising in works from Memphis Group which was an influential Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 design
Design

Design is used both as a noun and a verb. The term is often tied to the various applied arts and engineering . As a verb, "to design" refers to the process of originating and planning for a product, structure, system, or component with intention....
 and architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
 movement of the 1980s. In 2003 he designed and built The Big White House in Pett Level, East Sussex which was featured on the Grand Designs
Grand Designs

Grand Designs is a Channel 4 TV series covering unusual architectural house-building projects, presented by Kevin McCloud and produced by Talkback Thames....
 television show.

Later Work

In 2008 Watkins teamed up with newspaper art director and journalist Julian Bovis
Julian Bovis

Julian Bovis, born 2nd of April 1969 is a United Kingdom journalist and Newspaper Art Director. He was born in Banbury, United Kingdom and although studying Architecture at University of Plymouth, rose to prominence in the newspaper industry in the 1990s when he re-designed a number of England daily newspapers, changing them from broadsheet to ta...
 to create TV production company Jules & Fatty.