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Simon Heyworth is an English record engineer and producer. He rose to prominence as engineer at Richard Branson's The Manor Studio in the 1970s, where he and Tom Newman worked on Tubular Bells (1973) by Mike Oldfield, which achieved significant commercial success in the UK.
May 8, 2014 · We recently scurried down to deepest, darkest Devon to chew the fat with Simon Heyworth at his beautiful state-of-the-art Super Audio Mastering (SAM) facility.
It was being converted by these guys, Tom Newman and Simon Heyworth, who had convinced Richard Branson to build a studio in this old country house. Simon Heyworth: I was 19 years old, looking for a way into the recording industry, and Branson was beginning to build his empire with The Student magazine and his mail order company, Caroline Records.
- The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. “I had a been a Beatles fan since the first singles and had all the albums. When I had friends round to our house we would listen to music on my Dad’s ‘Radiogram’ which had a corner reflex cabinet with one Tannoy speaker in it.
- Neil Young After The Gold Rush. “I was in college in California in the late 60’s and grew up with the whole West Coast Music scene, going to every concert I possibly could from Buffalo Springfield, The Band, Grateful Dead to Jefferson Airplane and many more including all the English acts of the time who toured the States.
- Marvin Gaye What’s Going On. “Gaye had already had success with a number of songs from a career spanning ten years, notably ‘How Sweet It Is’, a Holland-Dozier-Holland song, and ‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough’ with Tammy Terrell.
- Stevie Wonder Songs in The Key of Life. “I had just left the Manor when this came out and in the previous year had been at Westlake Audio on Wilshire Boulevade in LA, where I was mixing an album and trying out the Westlake Studio acoustic concept.
Apr 1, 2006 · Simon Heyworth is the man responsible for the remastering of the current Depeche Mode album re-issues. We caught up with him to chat about the work involved. As Depeche Mode continues to tour the world in support of their latest album, 2005’s Playing The Angel, their back catalog has been remastered and is about to be rereleased.
Simon Heyworth. Super Audio Mastering’s Simon Heyworth established his reputation in recording at Virgin’s Manor Studios, most notably as co-producer of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells.
Simon Cowell Accident In August 2020, Simon Cowell suffered a serious accident while riding his electric bike at his home in Malibu, California. He broke his back and required extensive surgery, including having a metal rod inserted into his spine.
