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Simon Climie | |
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 Climie (right) with Rob Fisher at the Montreux Pop Festival in Switzerland 1988 | |
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| Birth name | Simon Crispin Climie [1] |
| Born | 7 April 1957 (age 67) Fulham, London, England |
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| Years active | 1987–present |
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| Website | Simon Climie Songs |
Simon Climie (born 7 April 1957 [2] ) is an English songwriter, musician and record producer. He is best known as the former lead singer of the UK duo Climie Fisher.
Climie was born in London. Beginning his career primarily as a songwriter/session musician, Climie found himself scoring early hits by the mid-1980s with compositions recorded by George Michael and Aretha Franklin ("I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)") and Pat Benatar ("Invincible"). He also wrote songs appearing on albums by such artists as Frida, Smokey Robinson, and Jeff Beck during this time. Then, on the fringes of session work, he did the Fairlight programming for Scritti Politti's album Cupid & Psyche. [3]
Later in the 1980s, he formed Climie Fisher together with Rob Fisher, whom he had met when they were both session musicians at Abbey Road Studios. [4] With Climie fronting the group, Climie Fisher had hits in many territories, with the singles "Love Changes (Everything)", which won an Ivor Novello Award, [5] [6] "Rise to the Occasion", "This Is Me" and more. Concurrent with his time in Climie Fisher, Climie continued with songwriting, landing another big hit in 1988 with Rod Stewart's recording of "My Heart Can't Tell You No".
After leaving EMI 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. [7]
In the mid-1990s Climie expanded to production, while continuing his songwriting career, producing and writing songs for a number of artists, including Eternal, Louise Redknapp, B.B. King, and Zucchero Fornaciari.
As the 90s progressed, Climie began a long-time collaboration with Eric Clapton beginning with his albums Pilgrim , Reptile , Riding with the King , Me And Mr. Johnson, Back Home and The Road to Escondido . In addition, he embarked on a similar musical partnership with Michael McDonald, producing McDonald's Motown , Motown II and Soul Speak albums. The third of these featured collaborations with Stevie Wonder and Toni Braxton, while the Grammy-nominated Motown spawned the US hit cover of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough".
Climie's songwriting success continued into the 2010s, with Sara Evans cracking the American country music charts for more than six months with her cover of "My Heart Can't Tell You No", while Chris Medina – who had already reached number one in a number of territories around the world with his first single – collaborated with Climie on his second single, "One More Time", and several songs on the album What Are Words.
Together with U2 drummer Larry Mullen, Jr., Climie co-wrote the film score and theme for Man on the Train (2011 TriBeCa Productions film) in which Mullen stars with Donald Sutherland. [8]
In 2013, he worked on production and mixing of Eric Clapton's album Old Sock , [9] which shot to number one in the American Billboard Independent Chart in March 2013 [10] after hitting number seven in the Billboard 200 [11] In 2014, Climie was co-producer again with Eric Clapton of the album The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale , a tribute to Clapton's long time friend, the late singer/songwriter J.J. Cale.
In 2016, Climie was the co-producer with Clapton on the album Live in San Diego which was recorded during the "Doyle & Derek World Tour" in 2007.
As a producer, Climie has won two Grammys for the albums Riding with the King in 2000 and The Road to Escondido in 2007. He received another Grammy nomination for Pilgrim in 1998. [12]
Climie is the son of David Climie, co-writer of the 1960s and 1970s television comedy series, Oh, Brother! , which starred Derek Nimmo. [13] 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 .
Includes songs and albums Climie has written, performed and/or produced.
T.D.F. was a dance act project featuring Climie and Eric Clapton, with Clapton working under the name of x-sample. "TDF" is an acronym for Totally Dysfunctional Family. [14] The project released one album called Retail Therapy on the Reprise record label. The title supposedly alludes to Clapton's "addiction" to buying clothes. [15] 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. [16] The track "Seven" from the album contains a sample of B. B. King's "How Blue Can You Get".
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