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Musical artist. Sylvie Simmons is a London-born, California-based music journalist, named as a "principal player" in Paul Gorman 's book on the history of the rock music press In Their Own Write (Sanctuary Publishing, 2001). A widely regarded writer and rock historian since the late 1970s, she is one of the few women to be included among the ...
For three and a half decades, before coming out as a singer-songwriter, Sylvie - born in London and based in California - had been an acclaimed rock writer, and the author of books including her celebrated biographies of Serge Gainsbourg, Neil Young and Leonard Cohen.
Feb 24, 2015 · Simmons, born in London and decamping to Los Angeles in ’77 to become a correspondent for Sounds, is almost four decades into a journalistic career that is unparalleled even by the gold standards of the 1970s and 80s, a rather different era to today, when top writers were treated like rock stars: some of them even adopted cool pen names without ...
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Leonard Cohen — Sylvie Simmons. “The definitive Cohen portrait…. Fearless and smart… The major, soul-searching biography that Leonard Cohen deserves … Mesmerizing.” New York Times (bestseller) ***** “A new gold standard.”— Los Angeles Times ***** “Elegant, deeply researched …
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Compass Records is proud to present BLUE ON BLUE, the new album by renowned singer, writer and ukulele-player Sylvie Simmons. It’s the follow-up to her revelatory 2014 debut SYLVIE—an album that The Guardian hailed as “One of the most beautiful albums of the year. Spell-binding,” and Devendra Banhart called “Fragile and fearless ...
303 subscribers ‧ 44 videos. I write about music - and I write and play music. I've been a rock journalist since I was a kid in the late Seventies. I became a singer-songwriter and recording ...
