Simon Cowell
- Profession: Music mogul
- Place/Date of Birth: Brighton, 07 October 2020
Who is the ’we’ keeping Gareth and Will successful? Is it the public buying the music - or is it the industry putting in time to keep them at the top? Hmm - conspiracy theory’s abound!
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Pop Fiction - 09/10/03
Simon Cowell is developing a fictional Pop Idol reality TV Show for the U.S. Confused?
You soon will be. The fictional TV Show will run 14 one hour shows set in a fake LA drama school, that will end with a live edpisode where a ’winner’ of Pop Idol is chosen. Surely this is just Pop Idol revisited?
Simon has teamed up with Ted Harbert, a former NBC executive whose production company Ted Harbert Television has a deal with Fox, to make the show. "He’s just plain smart," Mr Tarbert told Variety magazine. " Part of what we do with the series is show the behind-the-scenes stuff that isn’t shown on American Idol."
Mr Mega Rich - 15/08/03
It seems wearing unfashionably high trews and dishing out put downs left, right and center can help to make you one of the richest men around.
Simon Cowell has now made it to be
Of course it is not all from wearing high trousers and being equipped with a particularly dry sense of humour - Simon runs BMG records, has his own label S Records and also owns his own TV production company Simcow.
Just behind Simon is Chris Evans - still smiling with £25m despite losing £7m in his court battle with Sony and in third place is the surprising form of Jasper Carrott!
Simon’s Big Outburst - 01/08/03
Kensington resident Simon Cowell says that Big Brother is ’full of people seeking instant fame’. Does this bring to mind another reality TV Show at all?
Simon was speaking at the launch of the second series of Pop Idol, when he said, "Big Brother is not reality any more. You don’t get 10 normal people to do it. You get 10 crap actors in the house."
As opposed to a show that whittles its way through crap singers, as that would make compulsive viewing huh?
Simon’s new deal - 15/07/03 Courtesy of Heat Magazine
Simon Cowell is set to rake in even more money as he’s signed a deal to appear on American Idol for a further three years (at a reported $150.000 per episode).
Fox Television chairman Sasndy Grushow said, "There’s no question that Simon has and will continue to be its lynchpin for many years to come."
Simon Cowell faces £200m lawsuit - 20/05/03
Mr Nasty looks set to get even nastier after it was revealed that he is being sued £200million.
American Harry T Keane Jr, from
A spokesman for Fox called the legal action "ridiculous".
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Starting in 1979 with EMI Music Publishing, Cowell (42) got a taste for what the public wanted and it wasn’t long before he decided to take these qualities and put them to use for himself, setting up his own label, Fanfare, along with partner Iain Burton.
By 1989 BMG had offered Simon a position as A&R Consultant. It was a relationship which would prove to be hugely successful, profitable and enduring. Cowell has set-up his own label through BMG, S Records, reflecting the success and vision he has manifested.
Simon’s roster of signing reads like a who’s who of pop success stories over the last decade. Highlights include, Curiosity Killed The Cat, Sonia, and cornering the boy band market, bad boys of pop Five (who disbanded last year) and the global multi-platinum phenomenon, Westlife.
Always pop but never predictable, Simon has enjoyed some of his most successful signings by always keeping an eye firmly on the TV world, sensing a public following and always being the first knocking on the door. The Power Rangers, World Wrestling Federation, Zig & Zag and the Xmas Number 1 smash Teletubbies moved from the small box to the airwaves due to Simon, although, he claims his biggest shock success would come in the form of Robson & Jerome.
Making records and breaking them, in the last 10 years, Cowell has achieved sales of over 25 million albums, over 70 top 30 records and 17 number 1 singles.
Simon is currently a judge on the US version of Pop Idols and is busy looking after Will, Gareth and Sarah Watemore, who he signed to BMG after the show.
December 2007