Born in Chiswick, London in 1965, Simon started
in the music business as a drummer at the age of nine playing concerts in the
UK.
In the 1980's he started various bands sometimes playing drums, keyboards, guitar or
even main vocals. Groups include Tarazara, The Kick, Kou, Sin and Lunch
with the President co-producing with producer Gus Dudgeon (producer of Elton John, David Bowie, and Chris Rea). It should be noted that Gus
was Simon’s mentor and inspiration to become a producer himself, and therefore
Simon learned many tips and skills from Gus.
Simon's first album production credit was 'Insha
Allah by a band called NASA in 1990, the title track was used in the Mickey Rourke movie 'Wild Orchid'. Among Simon's credits he has composed a Rock
Musical called Overture' starring John Miles, Lon Satton and Lenny Zakatec (from The Alan Parsons Project) and a concept album
entitled The Black Book.
Simon produced and released Aural Pleasure for his own label,Inter Aspect (UK), distributed by
Total/BMG in 1996. With a solid Rock background Simon has produced
everything from Rock to Country, Pop to Dance. You can find his work on many a
turntable via various remixes including Wubble U and Alex Reece, very much dominating the underground dance scene of Europe in 1997.
In 1998 he was recruited by Grammy
Entertainment PCL, Thailand and has now sold in excess of 6 million
albums, and picked up no less than 10 record of the year awards, plus one
MTV 'Best Rock Album' Award in 2005. Simon produced the Thai Rock band Silly
fools for 5 albums and this made him a household name in Thai Music
business, winning Best Artist,Best Album and Best Rock Band 3 years
consecutively. The last album called King-size was the fastest selling
album in Thailand ever, topping over 800,000 CDs. Now very well known in Asia,
he wrote and recorded an album for Briony released on Japanese label Toshiba EMI & FUJI Music Publishing.
Next up was the Hangman album with Toe (singer of Silly Fools) released in the middle of 2007 and has sold 120,000 CDs to date plus the top 3 fastest selling download.
Simon
worked as Music Production Manager on "SUTASI" for Asia Sounds Pty Ltd as Music Production Manager in
September 2007 for a year.
He now spends his time between London, New York, Los Angeles and Thailand finding new and exciting bands to work with.
Trivia fans may be interested to know that Simon
was previously an actor and among other things appeared in Star Wars (the
original first movie shot in 1976) as a Jawa and played the character of Rock
guitarist 'Eddie Hunter' in BBC's Eastenders in 1986.
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