[4] While at the Daily Express Smith was assigned to cover the Manchester United v Red Star Belgrade European Cup match in Yugoslavia in 1958.

The aircraft bringing back the team, officials and press crashed in what became known as the Munich air disaster and Rose was one of the fatalities.

[5] Later on Smith began being influenced by The Beatles, in particular their manager Brian Epstein and decided to enter the music business.

Other important artists Smith was closely associated with include Atomic Rooster, Audience, Brand X, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Peter Hammill, Lindisfarne, Julian Lennon, Robert John Godfrey, String Driven Thing and Rare Bird.

She left to form her own company in the late 1970s and would manage the solo careers of Gabriel and Hammill, among others.

[11] Marillion's album Clutching at Straws (released shortly after his death in 1987) was dedicated to him in the sleeve credits.

The song "Time to Burn" by Peter Hammill (1988) is "something of a goodbye to Tony Stratton-Smith",[12] and 3, the 1988 band of Keith Emerson, Carl Palmer and Robert Berry, dedicated the closing track, "On My Way Home", of their only album To the Power of Three (1988), to Smith.