Saturday, 9 August 2014

Simon Napier-Bell: The Ultimate Rock & Roll Fantasist

“Well, Brian Epstein had fallen in love with me and got in a flutter and took a lot of sleeping pills – I wasn’t having an affair with him but his last message was to me. And the Mail did a thing on it and they printed a picture of me and Epstein and said I wasn’t homosexual. And I thought it made me look dishonest, as if I’d been lying all my life.”

Hard to find a line in this interview in The Times that sounds true.

As if you'd been lying all your life!

Good old Simon.

He's such a card!

PS Simon's memoir of the British music biz in the 60s, You Don't Have To Say You Love Me, is an absolute hoot - but should be filed under 'Fiction'.

Mr Napier-Bell has a new (crowdfunded) book out, Ta-Ra-Ra Boom De-Ay: The Dodgy Business of Popular Music.

1 comment:

  1. i can imagine eppy having a big crush on him...look at those photos of simon in his twenties...he was the proverbial nietzsche of the football team...i love that bit in the book where he claims to have been offered david bowie as trade.....i enjoyed that book too..i hear his new one's great too.

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