Simon napier bell biography definition

English record producer, music manager, author and journalist

Not to be confused with Simon Napier.

Simon Robert Napier-Bell (born 22 April 1939) is an English record producer, music manager, author and journalist.

Making his name in the 60s managing The Yardbirds and then Marc Bolan, legendary music business mogul Simon Napier-Bell was one of the first.

Making his name in the 60s managing The Yardbirds and then Marc Bolan, legendary music business mogul Simon Napier-Bell was one of the first.

Last week I had to do an interview that required short snappy answers about artists I've managed.

Simon managed and nurtured George Michael and Andrew Ridgely, otherwise known as Wham!, guiding through their early success and onto orchestrating the band to.

You probably know Simon Napier-Bell as the manager of the Yardbirds.

While performing in France in mid, Townson met the Yardbirds's manager Simon Napier-Bell and invited him to come and see the Silence.

At different times, he has managed artists as diverse as the Yardbirds, John's Children, Marc Bolan, Japan, London, Sinéad O'Connor, Ultravox, Boney M, Sinitta, Wham!, Blue Mercedes, Alsou and Candi Staton, among others.

Napier-Bell has written two volumes of music history, focusing on the history of the music industry since the 18th century.

He has also written two memoirs about his own experiences in the music industry.

Early years

Napier-Bell attended Durston House in Ealing, and then later a primary school at Perivale.

A documentary about the relationship between Kit Lambert, the aristocratic, homosexual son of the classical composer Constant Lambert, and Chris Stamp.

He then attended Harrow County School for Boys and Bryanston School in Dorset. Whilst at Bryanston, he formed the school's first jazz band. When he left school at the age of 17, it was with the idea of becoming a professi