What Simon Says: Simon Napier-Bell
Barney Hoskyns, NME, 1984
AS THE MANAGER of buddy-buddy superstars Wham!, Simon Napier-Bell is not modest about the role hes played in their success. Without him, he suggests, they wouldnt currently be touring England at all.
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