For one night only, music industry titan, Simon Napier-Bell will be in Bowral to recount his experiences in the sometimes debaucherous, always adventurous, world of the performing arts. Music manager, song writer, author and film maker Simon Napier-Bell managed George Michael, Wham! Sinead O’Connor, The Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, Ultravox, Boney M, Japan, Dusty Springfield, Wa Wa Nee and Candi Staton to name a few.
Simon also discovered Australia’s very own John Paul Young (in a bar of all places) – handing him his debut single Pasadena – originally intended for a female voice.
He was the showbiz entrepreneur who broke Wham globally by having them play former communist China in 1985 – the first western band to so, thereby cementing their fame forever. Napier-Bell is featured in the current Wham Netflix documentary and is the producer of ‘George Michael, portrait of an artist’, a documentary currently on Amazon.
In Britain, Simon worked alongside Beatles and Stones’ managers Brian Epstein and Andrew Loog Oldham, taking notes and observing the workings of the music industry which he later applied to his artists, who all became household names.
In the 60s, he co-wrote the hit single, ‘You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me’ for Dusty Springfield and later, a hit for Elvis Presley.
More recently, Napier-Bell is the successful author of 4 music industry 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’.
In this conversation, we chat to the man behind Wham and so many other showbiz stories as well as an audience Q and A. Age restriction +18.
Simon will take the stage at 7pm and tickets are $35. Diners should arrive by 6pm to eat before the show. Seating is unassigned and theatre style. Dinner will be available to order at the bar from 5pm
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Facilities
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Contacts
Bowral Bowling Club, 40 Shepherd Street, Bowral
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Bowral Bowling Club, 40 Shepherd Street, Bowral
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