Trivia

His mainstream media career effectively ended when he was convicted of sexually abusing teenage boys in September 2001 and imprisoned for a total of seven years. He was released in March 2005.

When he was a young man at Charterhouse school in England, he had a budding music career. He was known as a big man on campus, who was looked up to by amateur musicians. Through his Charterhouse connection, he subsequently discovered and named the band Genesis. After a very short run as their manager and producer, he passed them along to his friend Tony Stratton-Smith's management company. The band went on to become a huge success many years later, spawning the careers of Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins and Mike + The Mechanics, all of whom topped the American singles chart.

He was presented with the Music Industry Trusts' Award in 1997 for his outstanding contribution to the British music industry.

He produced the first Genesis album, "From Genesis to Revelation", and his company still owns the rights to it. Despite naming the band and securing their first recording deal, he earns nothing from subsequent Genesis releases. He also produced the original soundtrack album for and financially backed Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show in 1972. One of his associate companies, Bocu, publishes ABBA.

His mother was the stage actress Ailsa Linley King.

His trademark crooked smile is caused by damage to a muscle in his lip which occurred when he needed a forceps delivery due to a difficult birth.