Eric Hall

About

Eric Hall (11 November 1947 – 16 November 2020) was a British show business and football agent known for his flamboyant public persona, quick wit, unique fashion sense, and the catchphrase “Monster, monster …”.

After an early career as a singer (he sang backing vocals for Tiny Tim) and actor, in the early 1970s Hall became a publicist for EMI Records. There, he worked in the Artists and Repertoire department, where he met and befriended Freddie Mercury, he also claimed the song, “Killer Queen” was written about him, despite Mercury stating it was about a call girl. Hall arranged the Sex Pistols’ infamous, expletive-filled appearance on the Today television show in 1976 presented by Bill Grundy. Hall grew up in Bethnal Green in the East End of London, and was a friend of Marc Bolan. He had been with Bolan earlier on the night of the singer’s death in a car crash in 1977.
Hall was once tea boy with Elton John and also worked PR in the music business, promoting Frank Sinatra, the Sex Pistols, T-Rex, Queen, Steve Harley and the Bay City Rollers.
In 1986, a chance meeting with Steve Perryman led to him becoming a football agent, and within 10 years he had built up a roster…