Simon Price, born in South Wales in 1967 and now based in Brighton (after a long spell in London and a much shorter one in Paris), is an award-winning British music critic. His three-decades-long career includes nine years at Melody Maker magazine and twelve at the Independent On Sunday newspaper, during which he was voted Live Reviews Writer Of The Year on three consecutive occasions. His first book, Everything (A Book About Manic Street Preachers), published by Virgin in1999, was named Book Of The Year by NME and Rock Book Of The Decade by
The Guardian, and became the fastest-selling rock biography in UK history.
He was the first journalist to interview Suede, the first British journalist to interview Rage Against The Machine, the first outside the specialist hip hop press to write about the Wu-Tang Clan, and he discovered The Darkness. Other significant interviewees include Courtney Love, Kylie Minogue, Nine Inch Nails, Duran Duran Bjork, Snoop Dogg, Cher, Boy George, Smokey Robinson, John Cale, TLC, Stevie Nicks, Eddie Izzard, Siouxsie Sioux, Kings Of Leon, Adam Ant, Public Enemy, Dexys Midnight Runners, The Flaming Lips, Cameron Diaz, Marc Almond, Charlotte Church, Steve Strange, Salt & Pepa, Robert Plant, Chrissie Hynde and The Beastie Boys.
He is also an experienced radio presenter and club promoter, running the monthly alternative 80s night Spellbound and glam-punk-trash night Stay Beautiful
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