Paul Honeyford is an English biographer and writer who has worked on a number of music and sport related materials. His biography of Paul Weller

Paul Weller

Paul Weller is an English singer-songwriter. Starting with the band The Jam , Weller then went on to branch out musically to a more soulful style with The Style Council...

's band The Jam

The Jam

The Jam were an English punk rock/New Wave/mod revival band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were formed in Woking, Surrey. While they shared the "angry young men" outlook and fast tempos of their punk rock contemporaries, The Jam wore smartly tailored suits rather than ripped...

 ('The Modern World By Numbers') was the first such biography, written in consultation with the band at a time when they were at the peak of their success. Other works include 'Michael Jackson: The Golden Touch' and 'Harrison Ford: A Biography'. Honeyford also contributed to a number of English magazines including Vox

Vox (magazine)

Vox was a British music magazine, first issued in October 1990. It was published by IPC Media, and was later billed as a monthly sister-magazine to IPC's music weekly, the NME....

and Revolver (comics) and acted as consulting editor for a number of cult comics and magazines produced by Quality Communications

Quality Communications

Quality Communications is a British publishing company founded by Dez Skinn in 1982. Quality was initially formed to publish the award-winning monthly comics anthology Warrior. The company has been involved with comics in both the UK and the U.S., mainly with reprint material from Warrior and...

. For a time he worked with Martin Buchan

Martin Buchan

Martin McLean Buchan is a Scottish former footballer. Buchan was a central defender for Manchester United in 1972–1983, and captained the late 1970s teams for six years...

 - a former Manchester United footballer - on a history of Manchester United but this was never completed. He has often worked with Dave Heaven

Dave Heaven

David Andrew Rhys Heaven is a Welsh-descended musician of some renown with a focus on smooth jazz and fusion. Songs such as Midnight Dean Street, Do It Again and Moonflower brought him to the attention of guitarist Pete Downes who invited him to play with PD3, a jazz group with significant and...

, a musician, on a variety of musical and design projects. An alumnus of Urmston Grammar School

Urmston Grammar School

Urmston Grammar, known as Urmston Grammar School until September 2010, is a co-educational grammar school in Urmston, Greater Manchester, England. It is a state school within Trafford Local Authority. The school was assessed as "outstanding" in its 2008 Ofsted report...

he is the son of Raymond Honeyford who became well known in the Eighties over what became known as the Honeyford Affair.