Anthony Paul Fawcett (born 1948) is a British writer, art critic, and a former personal assistant to John Lennon and Yoko Ono from 1968 until 1970.
Fawcett witnessed firsthand many of the goings-on at Apple's Savile Row headquarters (also chronicled in The Longest Cocktail Party by Richard DiLello), and many of the business and interpersonal breakdowns that marked the end of the Beatles as a group.
[citation needed] Some years before this, after meeting musician Howard Devoto in New York and again in California in 1979, Fawcett decided to return to London at the beginning of the 1980s.
[citation needed] This period marked the beginning of Fawcett's construction of a new sort of powerful, yet discreet, liaising of business with the Arts.
[citation needed] Even at the very beginning of the 1980s, he was one of a small number of well connected and discriminating individuals who were drawing together many of the elements that would later enable the transformation of London into a major player in the international art world through the 1990s and beyond.