The original members were Elizabeth Fraser ( vocals ), Robin Guthrie ( guitar, drum machine ) and Will Heggie ( bass guitar ), who was replaced by Simon Raymonde ( also bass guitar ) early in the band's career.

In 1983, the band participated in 4AD's This Mortal Coil project ( this spawned a cover version of Tim Buckley's " Song to the Siren " performed by Guthrie and Fraser ), and during their work for that, they got to know Simon Raymonde ( formerly a member of Drowning Craze ), who joined the group later that year as bass player.

* Strangeways Radio Station where Simon Raymonde broadcasts Beneath The Surface

All songs written by Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde.

Simon Philip Raymonde ( born 3 April 1962, London ) is an English musician and record producer.

* This Mortal Coil's recording It'll End in Tears ( 4AD ), where it was played by Simon Raymonde of Cocteau Twins.

With this album, the band settled on what would, from then on, be their primary lineup: vocalist Elizabeth Fraser, guitarist Robin Guthrie and bass guitarist Simon Raymonde.

Bass guitarist Simon Raymonde alluded to it being rushed and unfinished, while guitarist Robin Guthrie referred to the period in which it was made as " arty-farty pre-Raphaellite ".< ref name =" cocteautwins. com ">

All songs written by Cocteau Twins ( Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie, Simon Raymonde ).

* Simon Raymonde – bass guitar, production

Bella Union is an independent record label that was started up by Simon Raymonde and Robin Guthrie in 1997.

The band split up not long after, but instead of letting the newly formed label go under, Robin Guthrie, Cocteau Twins ' founder and lead guitarist and Simon Raymonde, the band's bassist since 1984, decided to take charge of it.

Label founder Simon Raymonde is also in demand as a producer, mixing Fionn Regan's Mercury-nominated debut, and the seminal Lift to Exerience album, the first two Duke Spirit albums, Stephanie Dosen's A Lily For The Spectre, and the forthcoming album by Lucas Renney, ex-Golden Virgins singer, featuring members of Midlake and Stephanie Dosen's band.

The album's producers were Simon Raymonde ( formerly the bass player in Cocteau Twins, and now Bella Union Label boss ) and Flood, best known for his work with Nick Cave, NIN and U2.

Several new commercial Atari 7800 titles such as Beef Drop, B * nQ, Pac Man Collection, Combat 1990, Santa Simon, and Space War have been created and released.

In 1995, Simon Keynes observed that " if Bede's concept of the Southumbrian overlord, and the chronicler's concept of the ' Bretwalda ', are to be regarded as artificial constructs, which have no validity outside the context of the literary works in which they appear, we are released from the assumptions about political development which they seem to involve ... we might ask whether kings in the eighth and ninth centuries were quite so obsessed with the establishment of a pan-Southumbrian state ".

In October 1967, the British group Nirvana released The Story of Simon Simopath ( subtitled " A Science Fiction Pantomime "), an album that tells the story of the title character.

Once released, the full body of official evidence against Beria, in the words of Stalin biographer Simon Sebag-Montefiore, " reveals a sexual predator who used his power to indulge himself in obsessive depravity.

In October 1967, they released their first album: a concept album produced by Blackwell titled The Story of Simon Simopath.

More tracks from The Paul Simon Songbook were included along with recent compositions on their October 10, 1966, album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, which refined the folk rock sound hastily released on Sound of Silence.

Simon and Garfunkel then sued Pickwick because the company was presenting the music as recently recorded material, not as songs written and released over five years earlier.

That same year, Simon and Garfunkel contributed heavily to the soundtrack to Mike Nichols ' film The Graduate, which was released on January 21, 1968, and instantly rose to No. 1 as an album.

In April of that year, King published Blockade Billy, an original novella issued first by independent small press Cemetery Dance Publications and later released in mass market paperback by Simon & Schuster.

Simon the Sorcerer is an adventure game that was released by Adventure Soft on 2 January 1993 for Amiga and MS-DOS formats.

The first game, Simon the Sorcerer, was released in 1993 for IBM PC compatibles running MS-DOS on three 3. 5 " floppy disks in a large box styled with purple margins, with no speech and only sub-titles used throughout the game.

Wednesday Morning, 3 A. M. is the debut album by folk duo Simon & Garfunkel, released October 19, 1964.

" Snow " was released by the Scribner imprint of Simon & Schuster in September 2000, two months before the publication of Winter's Heart.

Simon & Schuster released a 2008 children's book about his life called The Fartiste written by Kathleen Krull & Paul Brewer and illustrated by Boris Kulikov.

Between 1957 and 1964, Simon wrote, recorded, and released more than 30 songs, occasionally reuniting with Garfunkel as Tom & Jerry for some singles, including " Our Song " and " That's My Story ".

Simon and Garfunkel's first LP, Wednesday Morning, 3 A. M., was released on October 19, 1964 ; it consisted of 12 songs in the folk vein, five written by Simon.

Simon also contributed to The Seekers catalogue with " Someday One Day ," which was released in March 1966, charting at around the same time as Simon and Garfunkel's Homeward Bound.

After Simon and Garfunkel split in 1970 ( two years later, their Greatest Hits album was released with Paul wearing a moustache in the photo ), Simon began to write and record solo material.

His eponymous album Paul Simon was released in January 1972, preceded by his first experiment with world music, the Jamaican-inspired " Mother and Child Reunion ", considered one of the first examples of reggae attempted by a white musician.

Simon's next project was the pop-folk album, There Goes Rhymin ' Simon, released in May 1973.

A Simon & Garfunkel reunion took place in 1993, and in another attempt to capitalize on the occasion, Columbia released Paul Simon 1964 / 1993 in September, a three-disc compilation that received a reduced version on the two-disc album The Paul Simon Anthology one month later.

The new lineup also featured guitarist Simon Hosford from Hay's solo band, along with bassist Stephen Hadley and drummer John Watson.

While in England, he recorded his solo The Paul Simon Songbook in 1965.

Also in 1965, they met Paul Simon ( of Simon & Garfunkel ) who was pursuing a solo career in the UK following the initial poor chart success of the duo's debut LP, Wednesday Morning, 3 A. M ..

The duo split up in 1970 at the height of their popularity, and Simon began a successful solo career, recording three highly acclaimed albums over the next five years.

Simon has earned 12 Grammys for his solo and collaborative work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award.

So Simon moved to England to pursue a solo career by touring folk clubs and coffee houses.

In 1965, he recorded his solo LP The Paul Simon Songbook in England.

Simon pursued solo projects after Bridge over Troubled Water, reuniting occasionally with Garfunkel for various projects, such as their 1975 Top Ten single " My Little Town ".

Simon had written it for Garfunkel, whose solo output Simon judged as lacking " bite ".

A successful US solo tour featured Simon and his guitar, with a recording of the rhythm track and horns for " Late In The Evening.

Simon found himself embracing new sounds, a fact that some critics viewed negatively – however, Simon reportedly felt it as a very natural artistic experiment, considering that " world music " was already present on much of his early work, including such Simon & Garfunkel hits as " El Condor Pasa " and his early solo recording " Mother and Child Reunion ", which was recorded in Kingston, Jamaica.

In mid-2010, Simon moved his catalogue of solo work from Warner Bros. Records to Sony / Columbia Records where Simon and Garfunkel's catalogue is.

The two performed " Here Comes the Sun " and " Homeward Bound "" together, while Simon performed " 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover " solo earlier in the show.

He is also a two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ; as a solo artist in 2001, and in 1990 as half of Simon & Garfunkel.

* January 27 – Paul Simon broadcasts on BBC radio for the first time, on their Five to Ten show, discussing and playing thirteen songs, twelve of which would appear on his May-recorded and August-released UK-only solo album, The Paul Simon Song Book.

Garfunkel was Tom Graph ( so called because he like to write the pop charts out on graph paper ) and Simon was Jerry Landis, a pseudonym he used during his early 1960s solo recordings.