Simon Price

Who is Simon Price?

Simon Price is a British music journalist and author. He is known for his weekly review section in The Independent on Sunday and his book Everything. Everything, a biography of the 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 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 the book following a dispute over edits by the publisher, who cut criticisms of the police search for Richey Edwards.

The son of a radio presenter, he attended Barry Comprehensive in Wales and studied French and philosophy at University College London. He began his career on the Barry & District News, where he wrote a music column from 1984-86. He wrote for Melody Maker for nine years.