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.