Anthony Arthur Barber, known as Tony, was born in England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. He arrived in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 in 1963.

He was a member of the band Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs

Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs

Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs were an Australian pop and rock group dating from the mid-sixties. The group enjoyed huge success in the mid-1960s, but split in 1967. They re-emerged in the early seventies to become one of the most popular Australian hard-rock bands of the period...

 in the 1960s. He wrote several children's books in the 1980s under the name A. A. Barber including The Puggle Tales

The Puggle Tales

The Puggle Tales are a group of seven books written by A. A. Barber.The titles are:*The Puggle Tales - Grandma Puggles Missing Silver Egg Timer *A Puggle Tale - All's Well That Ends Well - illustrated by Steph Campbell*An Uggle Tale - B.O...

. He also started and operated The Lost Forests stores. He appeared on the children's television show The Music Shop as Tony the Toymaker.