KEITH BADMAN
Co-Founder · Author · Archive Producer
International Emmy® & Rose d’Or winner
Keith Badman is a British author, historian and archive producer. Twelve books — among them The Beatles After the Break-Up, The Beatles Off the Record, The Beatles: The Dream Is Over, The Rolling Stones: Good Times Bad Times, The Beach Boys: The Definitive Diary (endorsed by Brian Wilson) and Marilyn Monroe: The Final Years — have topped charts in the UK, Europe, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Film and TV rights to Marilyn Monroe: The Final Years were acquired by Seven Seas Films. The series is in development with 101 Studios in Los Angeles — the first Marilyn drama approved by her Estate.
His screen career began in 1991 on Apple Corps’ official The Beatles Anthology. He has since worked on official films and series for The Beatles, Queen, Elvis, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Hollies and David Essex, for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, ABC, Netflix, VH1 and Amazon.
A long run with Queen includes Days of Our Lives, Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender, The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story, Queen: The Greatest, and Freddie Mercury: The Final Act. For that last film, as part of Rogan Productions, the team won an International Emmy and a Rose d’Or, and was nominated at the BAFTAs. He is also a FOCAL International award nominee (Queen: Days of Our Lives) and a Grammy nominee.
Recent credits include Elvis’s Women (2023), John Lennon: Borrowed Time, and Real Love: The Story of International Beatleweek (2026), Simon Weitzman’s documentary about Liverpool’s International Beatleweek, in which Keith appears as a Beatles expert.
In 2024 he co-founded Sapphire Cinema with Peter O’Brien. Together they published Imagine… If She Did? and are taking the feature into pre-production. The slate also includes When the Fabs Met the King, A Date with Terror, One Bad Habit and Kings of Slapstick.