Simon Price

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Price began his career on the Barry & District News, where he wrote a music column from 1984–1986.

In the 1990s, Price was a staff writer for the Melody Maker for nine years.

From 2000-2013, Price wrote weekly review section in The Independent on Sunday newspaper.

Everything, a biography of Manic Street Preachers, was claimed by Caroline Sullivan in The Guardian in 1999 to be the "fastest selling rock book of all time". It was later listed by The Guardian in a Top Ten of books about rock. Ben Myers, who wrote Richard, a novel about Manics guitarist Richey Edwards, called it "one of the most exhaustively researched and passionately written band biographies in existence". Price disowned a 2002 re-issue of the book following a dispute over edits by the publisher, who cut criticisms of the police search for Richey Edwards.

Price won the Record of the Day Live Reviews: Writer of the Year awards in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Price was heavily involved with the Romo scene in the mid-1990s, about which he wrote extensively for Melody Maker, co-promoted the Arcadia clubnight and acted as DJ and tour manager for the Fiddling While Romo Burns Romo package tour.

In 2001, he co-created alternative "glam/rock/trash" nightclub "Stay Beautiful". Named after the Manic Street Preachers song, it drew heavily on the ethos and attitudes of the band. Having run for over 10 years in London the club relocated to Brighton in 2011, where it continued until 2016.

Since 2017, Price has been is running an alternative 80's club called "Spellbound" in Brighton.

Price has appeared on BBC radio and television stations as a pop expert.

He is a recurring contributor to the "Chart Music" podcast, revisiting classic Top of the Pops episodes.

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