In Homers epic Odyssey, the war hero Odysseus on his return journey is

warned about the serenading Sirens. They lure sailors with their enchanting
music and singing, only to cause shipwrecks, destruction and death. So the
captain plugs the ears of all his sailors, and instructs them that he be tied to
the mast, so that he would not succumb to the temptation, even after
hearing the melodies. Talking to Simon Napier-Bell is like watching the history of music
unfold in Technicolor before your eyes. One of the most successful managers in music history,
Napier-Bell is a contemporary of superstar managers such as Kit Lambert (The Who), Brian
Epstein (The Beatles) and Andrew Oldham (Rolling Stones).
the GMBM scheme is considerably low in ambition. In the endeavour of
building consensus, the accepted GMBM scheme has pushed the onset of the
scheme to 2027, as opposed to the earlier proposed start date of 2020,
resulting in significant additional CO2 emissions from civil aviation remaining
unattributed. The agreement marks the period from 2021-26 as a voluntary
phase during which developed countries would begin testing the GMBM.
Napier-Bell has a portfolio featuring wildly-different acts from Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Japan,
Ultra Vox and The Yardbirds to Wham! A fascinating raconteur, Napier-Bell, who has also
written four vastly-entertaining books including Black Vinyl, White Powder, paints these vivid
word pictures where you can see an endless parade of beautiful people in a never-ending waltz of
drugs, sex and rock n roll.
Ask him who the biggest hell-raisers were and the 77-year-old who was in town for a talk at the
British Library says, None of the groups I managed were hell-raisers the kind who devoured
heroin by the jug full. Jimmy Page was not Led Zeppelins Jimmy Page when I was managing
The Yardbirds. Andrew and George (from Wham!) were dreadful gigglers but that is not hellraising is it?