An Evening with Simon Napier-Bell

Music manager, songwriter, author and film maker Simon Napier-Bell is hard to match in music industry knowledge, experience and impact. In 1966 he co-wrote Dusty Springfield’s number one “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me,” which was later covered by Elvis. He’s worked beside peers such as Brian Epstein and Andrew Loog Oldham, managers of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones respectively, where he learnt the skills needed to make his own clients household names too. He was the one who oversaw the entry of Jimmy Page into the Yardbirds, and as credited by the man himself, ‘discovered‘ John Paul Young (at a bar, in fact). On top of managing these music giants, he has also written several books, including ‘Black Vinyl, White Powder’, ‘Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay – The Dodgy Business of Popular Music’ & ‘The Business – A History of Popular Music from Sheet Music to Streaming’ as well as produced several documentaries: ’27 Club: Gone Too Soon’ with Netflix detailing the mythical coincidence of the famous musicians and the psyche of creative music artists, ‘George Michael: Portrait of an Artist” with Amazon Prime, ‘To Be Frank’ with Netflix on Frank Sinatra, ’50 Years Legal’ marking the milestone of the UK decriminalising homosexuality and “Raiding the Rock Vault,” the number one music show in Las Vegas.