Simon Price
Simon Price (born 25 September 1967, Barry, Wales) is a British music journalist and author. He is known for his weekly review section in The Independent on Sunday and his book Everything (A Book About Manic Street Preachers). Everything, a biography of the Manic Street Preachers, was claimed by Caroline Sullivan in The Guardian in 1999 to be the "fastest selling rock book of all time". It was later listed by The Guardian in a Top Ten books about rock. Ben Myers, who wrote Richard, a novel about Manics guitarist Richey Edwards, called it "one of the most exhaustively researched and passionately written band biographies in existence". Price disowned the book following a dispute over edits by the publisher, who cut criticisms of the police search for Richey Edwards.
The son of a radio presenter, he attended Barry Comprehensive in Wales and studied French and philosophy at University College London. He began his career on the Barry & District News, where he wrote a music column from 1984-86. He wrote for Melody Maker for nine years.
Simon Price (classicist)
Simon Rowland Francis Price (27 September 1954, London - 14 June 2011) was an English classical scholar, specialising in the imperial cult of ancient Rome. He was the son of the Anglican bishop Hetley Price and studied at Manchester Grammar School, Queen's College, Oxford (BA and DPhil), University College London (where he was supervised by John North for his Oxford thesis) and Christ's College Cambridge (junior research fellow), as well as teaching at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (tutor and research fellow).
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Simon Price (disambiguation)
Simon Price is a writer.
Simon Price or Pryce may also refer to:
Price, Simon Filmography
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2004, role: actor
Price, Simon Filmography
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1998, role: producer
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1994, role: editor
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1992, role: editor
Price, Simon Filmography
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2011, role: writer
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2011, role: director
