Peter Silverton, who died in 2023 at age 70, was a British journalist and author. An early admirer and supporter of the punk scene while a writer on Sounds magazine in the 1970s, Peter graduated from the music press to national newspapers, including the Guardian. Later he became an author and an early years education strategist, helping to develop his family's nursery school business, Ready Steady Go. At Skinners' school in Tunbridge Wells, Peter made friends with John Mellor, and later wrote about his friend's band, the 101ers, for the American magazine Trouser Press, just as John (by then known as Joe Strummer) split to form the Clash. Peter became a freelance writer for Sounds after finishing his psychology degree at Goldsmith's, University of London, in 1974, and was appointed features editor at the paper two years later. He turned freelance in 1978, writing for national daily papers on a range of subjects. He became deputy editor of Time Out's monthly magazine 20/20 in 1988, ghosted Glen Matlock's autobiography I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol (1990), and worked as an editorial consultant at Punch and the Guardian. He became associate editor at the Mail on Sunday Review in the early '90s, helping to launch its Night and Day magazine, before joining the Sunday Express magazine in 1996. (Mal Peachey)
