My aunt, Betty Hale, who has died aged 96, had a rich and varied life as a journalist and literary agent.
Working on the pop music magazine Fabulous (which became Fab 208) from 1964 onwards, she met and interviewed the stars of the era including the Beatles, Marianne Faithfull, Gene Pitney, the Osmonds and the Monkees. She was later appointed editor of Fab 208, and when the magazine ceased publication in the early 1980s she became managing editor of Woman until she retired in 1985 to start up her own literary agency, Brilliant Ideas.
