Joe Simon

Joe Simon

Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, March 1971

WITH JOE Simon's signature, Spring Records have gained their first real entry into the super-star league. Joe's first for the label, 'Your Time To Cry', ...

Joe Simon: The Reluctant Superstar

Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, June 1975

IN TERMS of actual record sales and box office figures, Joe Simon has only one or two peers over the past decade or so. Yet ...

Joe Simon - Get Down

Review by Cliff White, NME, September 1975

LEAPING ONTO THE dance floor of American's all-pervasive disco, Simon recovered from a slump in popularity by intoning "Get down, get down" about fifty-nine times ...

Mr Consistency That's Joe Simon

Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, March 1978

"I may not make more than one gold record a year," he says, "but every release sells about 300,000...and that's what keeps me going to ...

Joe Simon

Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, May 1979

I DON'T know about you, but my impression of Joe Simon has always been of a sober, conservative character. Maybe it was his clean approach ...

Joe Simon: Lookin’ Back

Sleevenotes by Barney Hoskyns, Charly Records, August 1988

JOE SIMON IS one of soul’s great deepies, possessor of a richly mellow voice that puts him up there with such deep-throated greats as Jerry ...