OBSERVER: Vale Graham Simpson
Melbourne journalist Graham Simpson (also known as Lester Parsons) has died.
Graham was many things. He was the Editor of the short-lived National Tattler magazine, p;roduced by Maxwell Newton Publications, where Simpson’s wife Jacqui Johnson worked on the Sunday Observer.
Graham Simpson was author of The Judith Durham Story, a sketch-writer for Fast Forward, and a corporate speechwriter for Mark Mitchell.
He was program writer for MCM Entertainment for 19 years, and wrote for syndicated radio programs such as My Generation and Take 40 Australia.
At 3XY he performed as ‘Lester Parsons’ for seven years, later working alongside XY’s Kevin Hillier.