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Simon Cowell

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“It's not enough to get into the forty. So I said, well, why don't we hold the order? And they said, well, we're not really supposed to do that.”
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“And Well, I think you can do that if you believe it yourself. And I did have this strong belief in myself that finally I'd found something I could do, which was Make a record, you know, make a terrible video. And I mean, because obviously we used to have to physically manufacture the records. I didn't have a lot of credit. So I had to do a lot of deals, you know, with these people. Look, I'll pay you if you'll make me 10,000 was the minimum or something. I mean, the whole thing I had to go through to get this record into the charts. And it was all about getting it into the top 40. And it took me three times, the first time it flopped, second time it flopped. And then what I did was I said to the warehouse, I said, what is the problem? They said, well, the record selling, but it's not, it keeps selling Simon, but...”
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“Night and day. And I couldn't think of anything more embarrassing. So I've always been the first to say, I don't know how our record's made. I can't read music. I haven't really got a clue, but I think I do have a good ear for a hit or a potential hit.”
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“Completely a hundred percent that. I mean, you've hit the nail on the head. Is it exactly that? And also, I didn't want to ever. Because I'd met some successful producers over the years, you know, and I had this vision of. Because I heard stories of ANR people who went into studios pretending they understood how to make a record and hadn't got a clue. In fact, one guy actually had literally a piece of metal Like a train track or something, literally a piece of iron, and he had it on his studio wall, and he called it the wachometer because all these idiot A and R guys used to come in yeah, don't really like the mix of the record and he'd go Yeah, I know exactly what you mean Let me just adjust this would just pull the lever down and the guys would go”
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“Because I know it would be enormous, it's like when people do magic on my shows. I'm not the person who goes, I know how you did that. I go, I believe in magic. And I will literally make myself believe in magic. And with music, it was sort of the same thing, which is I don't want to know too much. I don't want to pretend that I can read music because I can't. I don't want to make myself believe that I can be a producer because I probably couldn't be a very good producer. But I think I could be a very good A&R person, which is find an artist, find them the right song, and then, you know, break the record. And it took me about a year and a half to break that record. It was tough.”
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“I would have hustled it from somewhere because I really did believe in this. At the minute I heard the record from, I just thought this is going to be a hit. Just felt it. You know, I had a good, the funny thing is when I first, when I actually made my first record. The producer said, Do you want to come down to the studio? And I said, No. And he said, why? I said, because I don't want to know how a record is made. He said, why? He said, because I want to listen to it as anybody who buys records. If I know how a record's made, it's going to sound different to me. So to this day, I don't know how a record is actually made. I don't know how it started. Does someone play a baseline or keyboard? I mean, I literally haven't got a clue.”
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“I know you've made a lot of money. You're probably going to make a ton more. Do me a favor. Would you just give me £5,000? I don't want a salary, but with that money, I will make the video. I'll get it distributed. Blah, blah, blah, recorded, video, everything. And he went, let me think about it. And I kept calling him over the weekend. And eventually, okay, fine, $5,000, and that's it. So I thought, okay, that I think should be enough. And that was, you know, I suppose one of the biggest turning points in my life, if he had said no at that point, I'm not sure what I would have done.”
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“That's right, so much on cruising. The problem was the guy I was working with says to me. I'm expanding into book publishing. I'm like, okay, fine. So he didn't really take any notice of what I was doing. And then he said to me. I've been a public company, basically wants to buy my business, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Great Are you kidding? I've just made this record. I think it's going to be a hit. And he went, no, I'm shutting it down. And I said, What does that mean for me? He said, Well, you have a job. And I said, look,”
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“French part of Canada, where a lot of these records were originally made. They were all breaking out of gay clubs across the UK. And I just had this idea for Sinita, which was she was so beautiful, so much fun. And I thought, I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to make a record with her and I'm going to break it through. through the clubs across the UK. And I just had this crazy idea in my head for a title. And I said to this guy, I met. He hadn't had a hit before. This is Sanita, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I want to record this is how I think I'm going to break it. I want it to be called Somatcha. And he looked at me like, right. So we made two records. One was called Sermacho, the other one was called God, you've got it. Is the other side cruising?”
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“So I met Sanita in this club, the embassy club, which is a brilliant nightclub. I liked her. She liked me. I said to I run my own record label. I thought it was a great pickup She said, Oh, I'm an artist. I went, really? I said have you made any demos? And she said, yeah. So I said, can we meet again? And we did meet again. And she did pay me some demos. And I said, actually, you really, really good recording voice. And at the time, there was this particular kind of person. Sound dance music, which has really become popular in it. It was all originating from, I think,”
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“Alison Simon, right? Yeah. But then I met somebody who was a manager who managed hot gossip. And he had a really cool office in South Molten Street. And I just really liked him. He was really funny. And I said, can I work for you? And he went, doing what? I said, I want to start a record label. And he went, seriously? And I said, well, you got this great management company. I think I know how to make records. Let's just do it. And he went. I'll pay you £40 a week, and we agreed on £55. And I'm like brilliant. I don't know. I just suddenly, from feeling really, this isn't working to, I've really got a feeling this is going to work.”
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“So we started this company, we had about £40,000 seed money. Our offices were in an NCP park. I think it actually used to be a Our office, it was just so bad. And I'm like, oh God, what have I done? I just got this job with EMI and now I'm working in a Lou in a car park and this is not going to work. And after about 18 months, I just left.”
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“I was about probably about 1819 at that point. And then my boss said, I think you're really bright, Simon. Why don't we start a company together? And I was like, it's a bit early, isn't it? Like 19. And he said, I've been here for 16 years. You're never going to make much money. Let's just do it. I've actually found some tobacco. So I met these people. They earned a recording studio. I had a really, really bad feeling. And I said, I just don't think I can do this. It's too early. I don't even know what I'm doing at the moment, let alone run my own company. And he said, well, I think you better go and meet these people and tell them that the answer is no. And he did it. He knew what was going to happen because I went and they persuaded me. I know I'd made a mistake.”
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“and then just went out to all the record labels, met up with all as many ANR people as I could, and said, I think I've got a great song here and it will be perfect for one of your artists. And I did get a lot of the songs covered.”
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“And a lot of these songs were unknown. And what made it really difficult was that this job was actually promised to somebody else in the company. And obviously it got out that I got the job because my dad helped me get the job. Forgetting the fact I already worked there for 18 months, it just looked like I was given, even though it paid, I think, 30 quid a week or something, it wasn't like a high paid job. And no one would talk to me for the first six months. So I'm like, terrible. So I locked myself into this room and I just thought no one's talking to me. I'm just going to listen to every one of these terrible country songs. And I listened to literally thousands and thousands of songs over six months compiled a list.”
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“And my mum, I remember her face. She said, I've got some really exciting news for you. And I said, What? She said, I think there's a better job for you, Eddie, and my music publishing. And you've got to have an interview. And it was working in the international department of EMI Mees that publishing, which basically means that writers that were signed, say in America, Germany, whatever, this department administered their copyrights. And the job that became available was a song plugger, which meant all the hundreds of thousands, if not millions of songs they published, my job was to get other people to cover those songs so they could generate more money And to do that, it was quite a difficult job because it was the country music division. Now, at that point, country was not very popular in the UK”
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“awful, awful people really snobby, really mean, really rude. And after a month, my mum said to me, you're really unhappy, aren't you? And I said, yes, I'm really unhappy. I hate this. And then my dad knew the guy who ran ear my music publishing. Now this is where I was in the post room and I don't really think he connected me with my dad because my dad actually said to him, I can't believe after 80 months you didn't, you know, give Simon at least a little promotion. He went, I didn't realize that was your son, or sorry Claims. I'll never know. Anyway, the next thing is an opening suddenly arrives.”
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“I said right, nothing's happening here. I'm going to become an estate agent. And my dad, because he did have connections with property, he got me to work for a company called Hillia Parker, May and Rowden. Now, even by the name, you can just tell the kind of people who, I mean, they were just...”
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“I was actually maybe in a kind of a charmingly annoying way. I was always very polite. I was very on time. I would always say here's your mail, sir, ma'am. Is there anything else I can do for you? And while I'm here, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And so I was sort of like the company pet. However, it did start to gall on me after a while about how little money I was making and my brother making a lot of money now being an estate agent. And I wasn't offered a job out of the mail room. I thought it was going to happen after about a year, after 18 months nothing.”
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“Always, yeah, every time, every time there were a few people who were really, really kind to me and they explained what they did, they explained to me how music publishing worked, what they do for the writers, the catalogs, everything. So I started to get an understanding of how the music business worked. I also glimpsed some of the checks that were coming in, being in the mail room. And my jaw dropped. Seeing how much Kate Bush, for instance, earned, it was like bloody hell. If you do one in this business, there's a lot of money. I had no idea.”
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“And I'd turn up all cocky, you know, right, I've got a job at the post room and I'm going to do this and I'm going to do that. And they were like, just make us a cup of Tucson and blah, blah, blah. But it was good because I did get a chance to understand what everybody did in the company. And I think I was making £18 a week at that point. as the months wore on because I thought someone's going to realize I'm really talented and offered me a great job. And I literally would walk into everyone's offices pretty much every day and say, can I have a job, a better job? And there's nothing going. I literally, even the managing director, I just walked in one day and I said, I'm Simon, can I have a job? Because I'm really passionate. And he just threw me out of this office.”
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“Yeah. So it wasn't a very nice building. And it was almost like being in a garage where we were. It was definitely a basement. There were two guys he used to work. I think one of them was called Harry or something. They were probably in their mid to late 60s.”
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“So I had this choice of I could become a runner. At big film studio on what looked like a great movie. Or I could go in the post room at every music publishing, and something made me go. And I'll tell you what it was. I passed the studio where I was going to work as a runner one particular day. And there was a queue of people just outside the building. And I went up to someone and I said, you know, what's everyone queuing for? And they went work. I said, what do you mean? They said, well, no one here is on contract. And when a new production happens, it's pretty much first come, first served. And I'm thinking, God, this doesn't sound very reliable. I don't like the idea of that. So I think I'll take my chances and I'll work in the music publishing post room.”
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“Actually, I was over the job as a runner on the shining. They were just making that. I saw the hotel being built on the lot when I was a runner. My mom at the same time had made an application for me to work in the post room at EMI Music Publishing.”
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“I kind of worked out how to become a director, you know, you have to become a third assistant, a second assistant, first assistant, two years in editing suites, blah, blah, blah. And I was up for that. I thought this is something I think I would love. Unfortunately, the contract I have only lasted for two months. the executive producer was so mean that he said after two months, well, that's it, we don't need you anymore. But the PAs like me so much, they paid for my salary. But he was so awful, this guy. Every time he would come into the building, I used to have to hide under their desks. And he caught me one day, and he said, What are you doing here? And I said, well, nothing. He said, well, who's paying you? And I said, nobody. And he said, were you not allowed to be here? And he threw me out. And then I nearly got a job on.”
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“So that didn't go down well. My mom made an application for me to work for the civil service. So I was interviewed to be, I think like a law clerk or something and they actually had a chart which told you exactly how much money you would make at the age of 64. And I'm like, that's not going to happen. Then my dad thought I should be in the building trade. And I was going to have to work at this sort of building site, whatever it was for two years to learn everything. And I thought, no, and then eventually I got a job as a runner at Elstreet Studios. And the second I got that job, it was like brilliant. I was so happy. And it was hard.”
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“Well my dad said, okay, you failed all your exams. Twice, so you're going to have to get a job assignment. And since you're not qualified, what about Tesco's? I don't know where that came from. I'm like, doing what? And he said, well, you know, you could end up maybe managing a store or something. And I'm like, okay, so I turned up at this interview. And I remember I wore jeans. And before I even sat down, the guy said, how dare you come in here wearing jeans? And I'm like, I'm sorry. He said, well, how dare you? And I was so annoyed. I said, you know what? I'm really glad I came here because I never want to work for you or your company. And by the way, your office looks like.”
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“Well, I loved buying records. So just going into a record shop and saving up enough money to buy a single or an album was just everything. So most of my spending money would go on on records. I can vividly remember going into my bedroom with a brand new album and just loving listening to every single track on it. It was such an exciting feeling.”
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“Mean something for me later on in life. And I've said the same thing to my son, Eric. I remember the first time I said to him, Eric, manners maketh the man. He was about two. He's like, and then he repeated it back completely. Say it again. And then eventually, I think he must have been about four and he was very polite to someone. And I said, I'm very proud of you, Eric. And he went. Manners maketh the man daddy and I'm like you've got it”
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“Unfortunately, I've seen a lot of that as well. And I see an awful lot of hypocrisy, which are people, yes, who on the outside, you know, they show one side of it. I then always see that person when they're off camera and who they really are. And they are the opposite. They will just, like you said, completely ignore everybody. The worst thing is, and I had this as I was trying to get my career started, there's nothing worse than when you're talking to somebody. And as they're talking to you, they're looking for someone more important than you. I remember feeling that at an early age in my career and how that felt. And it was very demeaning. And I suppose, you know, those two stories about my mom and dad, they were really, really, really important things. And they must have known that I...”
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“Want you to think about that? I'm thinking sign on there. I had no idea what that means. Why do you say that? Maybe he's had a couple of drinks. And then I forget when I realized what it meant, but boy, did that stick in my mind, which was if you want to do one in life, it's going to be a team effort and make sure you recognize every single person on that team. And so if I walk into a room, I instantly, I think pretty much from the point I understood it, is that I can walk into a room and I can see, I see everything in one moment. I see the person who's opening the door. I see the person who's doing a particular job. So in other words, I see the room always as a team.”
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“Well, yeah, he, I mean, one of the things that always stuck in my mind, and it was quite an odd thing to say to a 12-year-old, he said, everyone in life, Simon, has a sign on their head. And it says, make me feel important.”
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“So that's what drove me. And, you know, my dad also, you know, he knew, you know, because I didn't do very well with my exam results. And he did say to me, it's quite clear somebody, you're not going to make university. Have you made up your mind what you want to do? And I said, I want to do something, I think, in entertainment. I'm not sure what. And he said, look, whatever you do, you're going to have to be patient because it's not going to happen overnight. If you want to do well, you've got to learn to be good at it. And it could take 20 years. It could take 30 years. But understand that. And I'm like, I'm fine with that. And I really was fine with that.”
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“He's going to probably invite me to his house and talk about golf. I just always had this in my head thinking I couldn't think of anything worse than having to suck up to a boss who doesn't like me. And the reason I kept thinking my boss would never like me is because I was so bad at school and my teachers were quite strict with me. So I thought work was probably going to be the same.”
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“It probably comes from my dad worked for a large corporation. And before he retired, he said to me, don't work for a large company. Because when you're, you know, 65 or whatever, they're going to retire you and you'll never hear from them again. And that is exactly what happened to my dad. And it was heartbreaking because he did work hard. He was a very loyal person, you know, to the company he worked for. When he passed away, you know, he didn't have any money. That's probably what made me realize, A, I don't want to be in that position. And secondly, the only way I can achieve that is by working for myself. And I always had this crazy vision of if I work for a company. And I don't get on well with the boss.”
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“When I lost them, particularly when I lost my mum, because then it was kind of final. It was the most devastating thing that ever happened in my life. I mean, it was. As bad as things could possibly be. And we just had the most amazing relationship. My mom was the disciplinarian. I remember I must have been about four years old, maybe even younger. And I remember where I was. I was sitting in the car. And she said something to me and she said, manners maketh the man. And I'm like, what does that mean? Manners maketh the man. And then she explained what that meant. And it's always stuck in my head because it's such an old-fashioned way of saying be polite. Both my parents were very kind of old school. They were very respectful to everyone. I always remember that. And I looked up to both of them. And I always knew at any time I could go to them when I needed.”
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“If we pay for the holiday, you've got to earn your spending money. So I'm like, fine. But I used to love it. If you got 10 quid for washing a car, I mean, it was like bingo. It was the best feeling.”
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“Well I had a happy childhood I was always bored though really bored at school I always wanted to have a life where I would be interested and have fun when I was told the school days are the best days of your life I'm thinking oh my God this is terrible because I hate school so I was really determined to do something where I would be actually just having fun. That's what I kept thinking to myself and Want to start making my own money. And one thing my parents did do when we were very, very young, because in those days you could actually, even at the age of about seven or eight, you know in our neighborhood is go around to people's houses, knock on their door and say, can I wash your car? Can I mow the lawn? Because my mum and dad said.”
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“Yeah, but this was a real bittersweet tie because I get a phone call, which starts with you sitting down and I was on a downward spiral from that period became a ridiculous workaholic working till 7 o'clock in the morning, suffering from depression. And the truth is I still suffer from depression at times.”
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“I met Sanita in this club and I thought I'm going to make a record with her. I don't know how her record's made. I can't read music, but let's just do it. The first time it flopped, second time it flopped. Even when I had the hit, I owed the bank $500,000 and I'm broke. But I would rather be mocked for being different than being safe.”
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