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Simon Rogers is an English musician, record producer and composer who has been a member of The Fall, and
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.


Biography

In 1976, Rogers entered the
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,
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, later becoming an associate (ARCM) and winning their guitar prize in 1980. Upon leaving he joined Ballet Rambert's Mercury Ensemble as their guitarist. During this period he composed several ballet scores, including ''Entre Dos Aguas'' and ''Fabrications'' for
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. He also made his first commercial hit, joining the South American
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group
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who enjoyed some UK and international chart success in the early 1980s, their best known single being "Cacharpaya".Pringle (2022), p. 162 In 1985, Rogers left both Rambert and Incantation and joined the post-punk group the Fall, initially as temporary bassist replacing Stephen Hanley. After Hanley's return from paternity leave, Rogers joined the Fall as on guitar and keyboards for the album ''
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'' and co-writing several songs on the follow-up ''
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''. He produced their top 20 album ''
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'' (1988)Pringle (2022), pp. 188, 190 before parting company with the group. During this period, he also produced two albums for
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singer Peter Murphy. He began to compose for television whilst at Rambert and his credits include TV dramas such as ''
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'' (1982), ''
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'' (1983) and ''
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'' (1988) as well as two American TV movies, ''Daddy'' (1987) and ''
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'' (1989) for
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. In the 1990s, Rogers continued to work in music production, beginning a long association with
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, for whom he co-produced the albums ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'' and ''
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'' as well as the football anthem "
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". He also returned to The Fall to produce the majority of ''
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''. Throughout the '90s he was also involved with underground dance music, remixing under the names RAMP and Slacker. Slacker signed to XL in '97 and had two hits, "Scared" and "Your Face" during their time on the label. There were also several successful releases on
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's More Protein label, including ''Generations of Love'' and ''Everything Starts with an E''. He has also developed solo projects such as ''Leuroj'' and ''T-Era'' for the Skint/Loaded labels, and ''Steiger'' for
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’s
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label. In 2003, he returned to television music, scoring ''40'' (starring
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and
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) for
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. Work on other productions followed swiftly after the first broadcast of the series including ITV's ''
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'', starring
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, various episodes of BBC's ''
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'' and Jon Howe's film ''Streets'' which was selected for the Venice Film Festival of 2004. Other credits include scores for ''South Africa, Murder Most Foul'', ''Ochberg's Orphans'' and ''Dancing with the Devil in the City of God'', directed by Oscar-winning documentary maker
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and the title music for '' Hustle'' (Kudos/Spooks Ltd for
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), which was nominated for the Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music
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in 2007. Rogers was also part of Musicotopia who have provided music for three series of Animal Planet's ''River Monsters'', BBC ''Natural World'' documentaries and ''The First World War from Above'' for BBC One in 2010. In 2012, he scored the 4th season of CBBC drama ''Young Dracula''. He also composed the music for ''
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'' since its second season.


See also

*
List of The Fall members The Fall were an English post-punk band from Prestwich, Greater Manchester. Formed in late 1976, the group originally featured vocalist Mark E. Smith, guitarist Martin Bramah, bassist Tony Friel and keyboardist Una Baines, with their first per ...


References


Sources

* * Pringle, Steve. ''You Must Get Them All: The Fall On Record''. London: Route Publishing, 2022.


External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rogers, Simon English male composers English record producers English male guitarists Living people The Fall (band) members Alumni of the Royal College of Music The Adult Net members Year of birth missing (living people)