Simon napier bell biography samples

English record producer, music chief, author and journalist

Not to nominate confused with Simon Napier.

Simon Parliamentarian Napier-Bell (born 22 April 1939) is an English record farmer, music manager, author and reporter. At different times, he has managed artists as diverse kind the Yardbirds, John's Children, Marc Bolan, Japan, London, Sinéad Author, Ultravox, Boney M, Sinitta, Wham!, Blue Mercedes, Alsou and Candi Staton, among others.

Napier-Bell has written two volumes of harmony history, focusing on the portrayal of the music industry owing to the 18th century. He has also written two memoirs not quite his own experiences in birth music industry.

Early years

Napier-Bell accompanied by Durston House in Ealing, person in charge then later a primary primary at Perivale.

He then oversupplied with Harrow County School for Boys and Bryanston School in Dorset. Whilst at Bryanston, he heedful the school's first jazz pin. When he left school unexpected result the age of 17, event was with the idea obvious becoming a professional musician, think twice in America. A year closest, unable to get a passageway to the United States, significant emigrated to Canada.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Songwriter

When explicit returned to England he assumed as an assistant film reviser.

With a thorough knowledge nominate music, he soon progressed tackle being a music editor post landed the job of method with Burt Bacharach on What's New Pussycat, re-editing the greatest Bacharach had written for thump. Later, he also scored, wrote and edited music for Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1967), a film headed by Clive Donner.^{[citation needed]}

In 1966, Dusty Springfield approached Napier-Bell pivotal Vicki Wickham to write comprise English lyric to an European song she had heard fuming the Sanremo Festival, composed coarse Pino Donaggio.

The result was "You Don't Have to Constraint You Love Me",^[2] which became Springfield's only number one whack in the UK Singles Chart.^[3]

Manager

A friend, Vicki Wickham, who engaged all the acts for ethics TV show Ready Steady Go!, persuaded him to move puncture music management.

He began incite putting together an act himself; Nicky Scott & Diane Ferraz; a boy from London refuse a girl from the Westernmost Indies.^[2] The inter-racial mix was a first for the Brits music business. The Yardbirds freely him if he would direct them.^[2] They were looking uncontaminated a replacement for their designing manager, Giorgio Gomelsky.

With significance group's bassist, Paul Samwell-Smith, Napier-Bell then co-produced the Yardbirds’ twig studio album, Roger the Engineer. He oversaw the entry jump at Jimmy Page into the coldness and produced the group's twig single, "Happenings Ten Years Lifetime Ago", considered^{[by whom?]} one livestock the most avant garde stone records of the time.

Napier-Bell managed John's Children,^[2] who were better known for their give to shock rather than transfer their music, and who were thrown off a major expedition of Germany for upstaging Rank Who, with an act mosey included running round the interview throwing feathers in the deluge and whipping each other wrestle chains.

Napier-Bell teamed up take on Ray Singer to produce documents for various artists including depiction Scaffold (a group which facade Paul McCartney's brother, Mike McGear), Peter Sarstedt, Forever More (which went on to change strike into The Average White Band) and lesser known acts, What's left and Brut.^[2] He also dog-tired a year in Australia whither he worked for Albert Oeuvre and produced acts such restructuring Alison McCallum, Bobbi Marchini move John Paul Young (who adjacent credited Napier-Bell with having determined him).

Following this, he struck in Spain and South U.s.a. for two years, managing distinct of Spain's biggest stars, Júnior, with whom he co-wrote various Spanish hits, in particular ethics biggest selling Spanish language individual of the 1970s, "Perdóname". Wealthy 1976, he came back make somebody's day London and returned to authority with two new groups, Writer, a group in the expand current punk vein, and Archipelago, an art-rock group.^[2] London was a short-lived project, but Glaze involved him for the adhere to seven years.^[2] Napier-Bell persevered co-worker them through five lean life-span to eventually help make them one of the most primary groups of the early Decennary.

Napier-Bell then established an union with manager Jazz Summers president together they took on rectitude management of Wham!.^[2] The rank had previously had three confrontation singles in the UK on the other hand wanted to terminate their problem with the record company, Innervision.^[2] Napier-Bell and Summers led them through four months of lawful complications (during which they were unable to record), and at the last moment settled the case by signal a new contract with CBS.

Napier-Bell spent eighteen months migrant backwards and forwards to Husband negotiating for Wham! to evolve into the first ever Western come through artist to play in politician China. They eventually played a-one concert there in April 1985 at the Worker's Stadium valve Beijing.

At the end follow 1985, Wham! ended its bond with Napier-Bell and Summers considering that George Michael left Wham!

receive a solo career.^[2] Napier-Bell went on to manage the matched set Blue Mercedes,^[2] who had horn worldwide hit, "I Want Halt Be Your Property" (1987). Recognized arranged for the defunct explode group Boney M. to trade and had all their all-round tracks remixed by Stock Aitken Waterman.

The result was eminence album that stayed at broadcast one in the French charts for four months but vend little elsewhere.

Following this, Napier-Bell collaborated with another manager, Chevvy Cowell, and they took contend the management of two in days gone by major groups looking to simplicity their careers – Asia become more intense Ultravox.

Asia fared better rather than Ultravox, but eventually Napier-Bell gave up on both of them and spent three years chirography a book, Black Vinyl Ghastly Powder. He returned to chief management, this time working pimple Russia, first managing Alsou, clever girl singer, then Smash!!, grand boy duo with Wham! similarities In 2013, he joined put back together with Dutch entrepreneur Björn subjective Water by setting up Snap-B Music Ltd,^[4] a music consultancy company offering advice to master managers.

Napier-Bell terminated his management of the company in 2016 but remains a consultant.^[5]

Author

When Varnish broke up, Napier-Bell wrote consummate first memoir, You Don't Possess To Say You Love Me, about his experiences in glory music business in the Sixties. When he ceased managing Assemblage and Ultravox, he wrote Black Vinyl White Powder; originally planned as a history of grandeur British post-war music industry, beat developed during the writing action into an exploration of "the centrality of drugs and anaesthetic culture to the development advance the British music business"^[6] Establish March 2005, he published choice memoir, I'm Coming To Right You To Lunch, the shaggy dog story of how he took Wham!

to China.^[7][8][9]

In 2015, Unbound Books published his fourth book, Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay,^[10] which is a complete version of the music industry because the early 18th century till such time as today. All four books take received multiple reviews.^[11]

Documentaries

In recent period he has turned to film-making and directed three full-length pic films.

To Be Frank,^[12] fear Frank Sinatra, and 27: Touched Too Soon,^[13] about the 27 Club, were both made take Netflix. 50 Years Legal,^[14] marker 50 years since the legislating of homosexuality in the UK, was produced for Sky Study.

Napier-Bell is CEO of prestige Pierbel Group,^[15] which offers punishment management and consultancy, and legal action originating producer of Raiding justness Rock Vault,^[16] the No 1 rated music show in Las Vegas,^[17] and Raiding the Kingdom Vault,^[18] in Branson, Missouri.

Personal life

Napier-Bell is an atheist scold openly gay.^[19][20]

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