Simon Climie
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Simon Climie is a songwriter/producer and the former lead singer of the UK
pop
duo
Climie Fisher
, who had hits with "Love Changes (Everything)" and "Rise to the Occasion".
He went on to write hits for other artistes, including George Michael
and Aretha Franklin
's "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)", which reached number one in both the UK Singles Chart
and Billboard's Hot 100 in America.
Simon is also known for his Grammy Award-winning work as a collaborator with Eric Clapton
on Platinum album
s such as Pilgrim
, Reptile
and Riding with the King.
Sara Evans
has had a hit in the American country music charts with her cover of Simon's song "My Heart Can't Tell You No", Chris Medina
has reached number one in Scandinavia and the Far East with his track "One More Time", and Simon has co-written the theme for Man On The Train (2011 TriBeCa Productions
film) with U2
founder member Larry Mullen, Jr., who stars with Donald Sutherland
in Mary McGuckian
's remake of the 2002 French classic which is on iTunes.
Simon is the son of David Climie, co-writer of the popular 1960s and 1970s television comedy series, Oh, Brother!
, which starred Derek Nimmo
. as well as Lulu's Back in Town (see Lulu
), the comedy series Bootsie and Snudge
, Backs to the Land
, Wodehouse Playhouse
, That Was The Week That Was
, The Army Game
, the sci-fi series Out of the Unknown
, the radio version of Whack-O! and the comedy film Desert Mice
. (See David Climie in IMDB)
and the final Climie Fisher album Coming In For The Kill, Climie signed to Sony
's Columbia
label
as a solo
artist
, releasing an album called Soul Inspiration in 1992. However unlike his former hits with partner Rob Fisher
, neither the album or attending single
managed to reach their respective UK Top 40.
From this point Climie switched to production
, producing and writing
song
s for a number of 1990s pop artists, such as Louise Redknapp
and MN8.
In the late 1990s, Climie became involved with Eric Clapton
, acting as producer and sometime co-writer. Climie also contributed keyboards and programming to Clapton's Pilgrim
.
His most recent work with Clapton is on Clapton and J.J. Cale
's album The Road to Escondido
, released in 2006. Apart from Clapton, he also worked with former Doobie Brothers member Michael McDonald
on his Motown albums. He produced the 2009 album by the American Idol
winner Taylor Hicks
, The Distance.
(Soul Inspiration / Does Your Heart Still Break / Love In The Right Hands / Dream With Me / Oh How The Years Go By / Don’t Give Up So Easy / Spell / Don’t Waste Time (Make Your Move) / Losing You / Life Goes On)
act project featuring Climie and Eric Clapton, with Clapton working under the name of x-sample. "TDF" is an acronym for Totally Dysfunctional Family
. The project released one album called Retail Therapy on the Reprise
record label. The title
supposedly alludes to Clapton's "addiction" to buying clothes. Eric Clapton states in his autobiography that he persuaded Giorgio Armani, a friend of Clapton's, to let them do the music for one of his fashion shows.
Retail Therapy track listing:
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
duo
Duet (music)
A duet is a musical composition for two performers. In classical music, the term is most often used for a composition for two singers or pianists; with other instruments, the word duo is also often used. A piece performed by two pianists performing together on the same piano is referred to as...
Climie Fisher
Climie Fisher
Climie Fisher were a UK pop duo formed by vocalist Simon Climie and former Naked Eyes keyboardist Rob Fisher...
, who had hits with "Love Changes (Everything)" and "Rise to the Occasion".
He went on to write hits for other artistes, including George Michael
George Michael
George Michael is a British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! with his school friend, Andrew Ridgeley...
and Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
's "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)", which reached number one in both the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
and Billboard's Hot 100 in America.
Simon is also known for his Grammy Award-winning work as a collaborator with Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...
on Platinum album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
s such as Pilgrim
Pilgrim (1998 album)
Pilgrim is a rock album by Eric Clapton released in 1998. The album was recorded at Olympic Studio in London in late 1997. Neon Genesis Evangelion character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto designed the cover of the album.-History:...
, Reptile
Reptile (album)
Reptile is a studio album by British musician Eric Clapton, released by Reprise Records on 13 March 2001. The album was produced by Eric Clapton with Simon Climie and is Eric's first album to feature keyboard work by Billy Preston and background vocals by the Impressions.- Track listing :#...
and Riding with the King.
Sara Evans
Sara Evans
Sara Lynn Evans is an American country singer and songwriter.Evans was one of the few traditional-styled singers to emerge from Nashville in the late 1990s, according to Allmusic. Since emerging in the late 1990s, Evans has made five No. 1 Country hits and Gold and Platinum-certified albums by...
has had a hit in the American country music charts with her cover of Simon's song "My Heart Can't Tell You No", Chris Medina
Chris Medina
Christopher Edward "Chris" Medina is an American singer born in Chicago, Illinois. Medina is most notable as a former American Idol contestant during the tenth season of Idol and his single, "What Are Words", which went to #1 in Norway and Sweden and spent 19 weeks at number 1 combined...
has reached number one in Scandinavia and the Far East with his track "One More Time", and Simon has co-written the theme for Man On The Train (2011 TriBeCa Productions
TriBeCa Productions
Tribeca Productions, a film and television production company, was co-founded in 1989 by actor Robert De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal in the lower Manhattan neighborhood of TriBeCa...
film) with U2
U2
U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...
founder member Larry Mullen, Jr., who stars with Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland
Donald McNichol Sutherland, OC is a Canadian actor with a film career spanning nearly 50 years. Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, , MASH , and Kelly's Heroes , as well as in such popular films as Klute, Invasion of the...
in Mary McGuckian
Mary McGuckian
Mary McGuckian is a film director, producer and screenwriter from Northern Ireland.-Early life:Born and brought up in Northern Ireland during the 'troubles', Mary McGuckian completed her formal education in the Republic of Ireland at Trinity College Dublin, where she took a degree in engineering...
's remake of the 2002 French classic which is on iTunes.
Simon is the son of David Climie, co-writer of the popular 1960s and 1970s television comedy series, Oh, Brother!
Oh, Brother!
Oh, Brother! was a British television sitcom originally broadcast from 1968 to 1970.Oh, Brother! may also refer to:* Oh, Brother! , by Bob Weber Jr...
, which starred Derek Nimmo
Derek Nimmo
Derek Robert Nimmo was an English character actor. He was particularly associated with upper-class "silly-ass" roles, and clerical roles.-Career:...
. as well as Lulu's Back in Town (see Lulu
Lulu (singer)
Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, OBE , best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scottish singer, actress, and television personality who has been successful in the entertainment business from the 1960s through to the present day...
), the comedy series Bootsie and Snudge
Bootsie and Snudge
Bootsie and Snudge was a British television situation comedy series written, in the early days, by Barry Took and Marty Feldman, later writers were John Antrobus, Jack Rosenthal, ventriloquist Ray Alan and Harry Driver. The show featured Clive Dunn, more famous as Corporal Jones in Dad's Army, as...
, Backs to the Land
Backs to the Land
Backs to the Land is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1977 to 1978. Starring Philippa Howell, Terese Stevens and Marilyn Galsworthy, Backs to the Land is set during World War II. It was written by David Climie...
, Wodehouse Playhouse
Wodehouse Playhouse
Wodehouse Playhouse is a British television comedy series based on the short stories of P. G. Wodehouse. From 1975 to 1978, three series were made, with twenty half-hour episodes altogether in the entire series.-Overview:P. G...
, That Was The Week That Was
That Was The Week That Was
That Was The Week That Was, also known as TW3, is a satirical television comedy programme that was shown on BBC Television in 1962 and 1963. It was devised, produced and directed by Ned Sherrin and presented by David Frost...
, The Army Game
The Army Game
The Army Game is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1957 to 1961. Made in black-and-white, it is about National Service conscription to the post-war British Army. It was created by Sid Colin...
, the sci-fi series Out of the Unknown
Out of the Unknown
Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Each episode was an independent dramatisation of a separate science fiction short story...
, the radio version of Whack-O! and the comedy film Desert Mice
Desert Mice
Desert Mice is a 1959 British comedy film featuring Alfred Marks, Sid James, Dora Bryan, Irene Handl, John Le Mesurier and Liz Fraser. A group of ENSA entertainers with the British army in the North Africa desert during the Second World War thwart a Nazi plan...
. (See David Climie in IMDB)
Biography
After leaving EMIEMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
and the final Climie Fisher album Coming In For The Kill, Climie signed to Sony
Sony
, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
's Columbia
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
as a solo
Solo (music)
In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...
artist
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
, releasing an album called Soul Inspiration in 1992. However unlike his former hits with partner Rob Fisher
Rob Fisher
Rob Fisher was a British keyboardist and songwriter from Cheltenham, England, who achieved chart success as a member of Naked Eyes, and later Climie Fisher...
, neither the album or attending single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
managed to reach their respective UK Top 40.
From this point Climie switched to production
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
, producing and writing
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
song
Song
In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...
s for a number of 1990s pop artists, such as Louise Redknapp
Louise Redknapp
Louise Elizabeth Redknapp is an English singer and media personality. She was a member of the girl group Eternal from 1992 to 1995, before becoming a solo singer . She has presented several television shows and served as a judge on the UK version of So You Think You Can Dance...
and MN8.
In the late 1990s, Climie became involved with Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...
, acting as producer and sometime co-writer. Climie also contributed keyboards and programming to Clapton's Pilgrim
Pilgrim (1998 album)
Pilgrim is a rock album by Eric Clapton released in 1998. The album was recorded at Olympic Studio in London in late 1997. Neon Genesis Evangelion character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto designed the cover of the album.-History:...
.
His most recent work with Clapton is on Clapton and J.J. Cale
J.J. Cale
JJ Cale , born John Weldon Cale on December 5, 1938, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and musician. Cale is one of the originators of the Tulsa Sound, a loose genre drawing on blues, rockabilly, country, and jazz influences. Cale's personal style has...
's album The Road to Escondido
The Road to Escondido
The Road to Escondido is an album by J. J. Cale and Eric Clapton. It was released on November 7, 2006. Contained on this album are the final recordings of Billy Preston, to whom the album is dedicated....
, released in 2006. Apart from Clapton, he also worked with former Doobie Brothers member Michael McDonald
Michael McDonald (singer)
Michael McDonald is a five-time Grammy Award winning American singer and songwriter. McDonald is known for a soulful baritone singing style and a multi-octave range. He began his career singing back-up vocals with Steely Dan...
on his Motown albums. He produced the 2009 album by the American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
winner Taylor Hicks
Taylor Hicks
Taylor Reuben Hicks is an American singer who achieved fame in 2006, when he won the fifth season of American Idol. Hicks got his start as a professional musician in his late teens and performed around the Southeastern United States for well over the span of a decade, during which he also released...
, The Distance.
Albums
- EverythingEverything (Climie Fisher album)Everything is the first album by British pop duo Climie Fisher, released in 1987. The album includes the duo's biggest hit and best-remembered single, "Love Changes ", and reached #14 on the UK album chart...
(as part of Climie Fisher - 1988) - Coming In for the KillComing In for the KillComing In for the Kill is the second and last album by British pop duo Climie Fisher, released in 1989. The album was less successful than its predecessor Everything, peaking at #35 in the United Kingdom....
(as part of Climie Fisher - 1989) - Soul Inspiration (solo - 1992)
(Soul Inspiration / Does Your Heart Still Break / Love In The Right Hands / Dream With Me / Oh How The Years Go By / Don’t Give Up So Easy / Spell / Don’t Waste Time (Make Your Move) / Losing You / Life Goes On)
- PilgrimPilgrimA pilgrim is a traveler who is on a journey to a holy place. Typically, this is a physical journeying to some place of special significance to the adherent of a particular religious belief system...
- Eric Clapton (Production & Writing) - Riding with the KingRiding with the KingRiding with the King was singer-songwriter John Hiatt's sixth album, released in 1983. It was his second of three albums with Geffen Records. Ron Nagle and Scott Mathews produced side one of the album at The Pen in San Francisco, with Mathews himself playing all instruments and all the...
- BB King & Eric Clapton (Production) - Motown I - Michael McDonald - (Production)
- Reptile - Eric Clapton (Production & Writing)
- One More Car - One More Rider Eric Clapton Live (Production & Writing)
- Motown II - Michael McDonald - (Production)
- Me & Mr Johnson Eric Clapton (Production)
- Back Home - Eric Clapton (Production & Writing)
- Soul Speak - Michael McDonald (Production & Writing)
- Lara Fabian - TLFM
- Chris Medina - What Are Words
Singles
- "Soul Inspiration" (1992) - #60 UK; #44 Netherlands; #60 Germany,
- "Does Your Heart Still Break" (1993) - #71 Germany
- "Oh How The Years Go By" (1993)
TDF
TDF was a danceDance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
act project featuring Climie and Eric Clapton, with Clapton working under the name of x-sample. "TDF" is an acronym for Totally Dysfunctional Family
Family
In human context, a family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence. In most societies it is the principal institution for the socialization of children...
. The project released one album called Retail Therapy on the Reprise
Reprise Records
Reprise Records is an American record label, founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. It is owned by Warner Music Group, and operated through Warner Bros. Records.-Beginnings:...
record label. The title
Retail therapy
Retail therapy is shopping with the primary purpose of improving the buyer's mood or disposition. Often seen in people during periods of depression or transition, it is normally a short-lived habit...
supposedly alludes to Clapton's "addiction" to buying clothes. Eric Clapton states in his autobiography that he persuaded Giorgio Armani, a friend of Clapton's, to let them do the music for one of his fashion shows.
Retail Therapy track listing:
- "Blue Rock
- "Angelica
- "Pnom-Sen
- "Sno God
- "Sienna
- "Seven" (contains a sampleSampling (music)In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...
of B. B. KingB. B. KingRiley B. King , known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter.Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at No.3 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. According to Edward M...
's "How Blue Can You GetHow Blue Can You Get"How Blue Can You Get" is a song that is a classic of the blues. A slow twelve-bar blues, the song is credited to jazz critic Leonard Feather and his wife, Jane Feather. It has been recorded by several blues and other artists; in 1964, it was a hit for B.B...
") - "Angelica’s Dream"
- "What She Wants"
- "Donna"
- "Rip Stop"
- "What Else"