Simon Harper
@mrsimonharper.bsky.social
Founder of Sharper Content and Clash Magazine. Etta and Joni’s dad. 🏴
RIP Mani. A devastating loss to music. Mani was half of one of the greatest rhythm sections of my generation - a band whose impact was so significant, so consequential, that I hope he knew just how special he was.
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
RIP Mani. A devastating loss to music. Mani was half of one of the greatest rhythm sections of my generation - a band whose impact was so significant, so consequential, that I hope he knew just how special he was.
In 1967, Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones and his friend Prince Stash were arrested in a police sting led by the notorious Sgt Norman Pilcher. Its repercussions haunted Brian the rest of his tragically short life.
Hear Stash tel the full story in Ep4 of Lip Service.
🎧 Link in bio!
Hear Stash tel the full story in Ep4 of Lip Service.
🎧 Link in bio!
November 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
In 1967, Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones and his friend Prince Stash were arrested in a police sting led by the notorious Sgt Norman Pilcher. Its repercussions haunted Brian the rest of his tragically short life.
Hear Stash tel the full story in Ep4 of Lip Service.
🎧 Link in bio!
Hear Stash tel the full story in Ep4 of Lip Service.
🎧 Link in bio!
Exactly 60 years ago today, The Beatles were awarded MBEs by The Queen. “‘It was quite funny,” said John Lennon after. “But she was sweet. I think she seemed a bit mumsy to us because we were young boys and she was a bit older.”
October 26, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Exactly 60 years ago today, The Beatles were awarded MBEs by The Queen. “‘It was quite funny,” said John Lennon after. “But she was sweet. I think she seemed a bit mumsy to us because we were young boys and she was a bit older.”
I don’t know how I’m going to cope without my biweekly fix of the WTF Podcast. What an incredible legacy @marcmaron.bsky.social has built, affirming podcasts as an engaging medium, and conducting 1600+ interviews with passion and respect. He should be proud! Here’s to next steps!
October 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I don’t know how I’m going to cope without my biweekly fix of the WTF Podcast. What an incredible legacy @marcmaron.bsky.social has built, affirming podcasts as an engaging medium, and conducting 1600+ interviews with passion and respect. He should be proud! Here’s to next steps!
Kids asleep. Wife out. Lights out. Time for a movie, and there’s really only one choice tonight. 😢
September 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Kids asleep. Wife out. Lights out. Time for a movie, and there’s really only one choice tonight. 😢
Happy 40th anniversary to the funkiest album in the @chilipeppers.bsky.social arsenal: Freaky Styley. My copy here, signed by producer George Clinton!
Aaaand…
Happy 36th to the album that proved my entry point into the band: Mother’s Milk. My copy here, signed by Flea, Chad & Anthony! 🥳
Aaaand…
Happy 36th to the album that proved my entry point into the band: Mother’s Milk. My copy here, signed by Flea, Chad & Anthony! 🥳
August 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Happy 40th anniversary to the funkiest album in the @chilipeppers.bsky.social arsenal: Freaky Styley. My copy here, signed by producer George Clinton!
Aaaand…
Happy 36th to the album that proved my entry point into the band: Mother’s Milk. My copy here, signed by Flea, Chad & Anthony! 🥳
Aaaand…
Happy 36th to the album that proved my entry point into the band: Mother’s Milk. My copy here, signed by Flea, Chad & Anthony! 🥳
“You’ve got to be able to be proud of yourself, man,” the late great David Crosby told me in 2018, imparting his hard-earned wisdom, “and that means you gotta stick up for what you believe in, otherwise you can’t. It’s that simple.”
Happy birthday Croz, wherever you are.
Happy birthday Croz, wherever you are.
August 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
“You’ve got to be able to be proud of yourself, man,” the late great David Crosby told me in 2018, imparting his hard-earned wisdom, “and that means you gotta stick up for what you believe in, otherwise you can’t. It’s that simple.”
Happy birthday Croz, wherever you are.
Happy birthday Croz, wherever you are.
Heading off on a fortnight’s holiday and only got room to pack 4 books from my reading list of 8.
Which ones make the cut?
Which ones make the cut?
July 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Heading off on a fortnight’s holiday and only got room to pack 4 books from my reading list of 8.
Which ones make the cut?
Which ones make the cut?
In 2019, a year beset with trauma - bacterial infection, pneumonia, a serious fall, Parkinson’s - I asked Ozzy Osbourne what, in his long and storied career, he was most proud of. “Not dying!” he laughed. “I mean, it was just the best fucking party of my life.”
#RIPOzzy
#RIPOzzy
July 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
In 2019, a year beset with trauma - bacterial infection, pneumonia, a serious fall, Parkinson’s - I asked Ozzy Osbourne what, in his long and storied career, he was most proud of. “Not dying!” he laughed. “I mean, it was just the best fucking party of my life.”
#RIPOzzy
#RIPOzzy
“These songs ARE my legacy!”
I had the great honour of speaking with the great @johnfogerty.com for @classicrockmag.bsky.social - our long, career-spanning, heartbreaking & inspiring conversation is the epic cover story of the brand new issue, out now.
Go buy it, and KEEP ON CHOOGLIN’!
I had the great honour of speaking with the great @johnfogerty.com for @classicrockmag.bsky.social - our long, career-spanning, heartbreaking & inspiring conversation is the epic cover story of the brand new issue, out now.
Go buy it, and KEEP ON CHOOGLIN’!
July 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“These songs ARE my legacy!”
I had the great honour of speaking with the great @johnfogerty.com for @classicrockmag.bsky.social - our long, career-spanning, heartbreaking & inspiring conversation is the epic cover story of the brand new issue, out now.
Go buy it, and KEEP ON CHOOGLIN’!
I had the great honour of speaking with the great @johnfogerty.com for @classicrockmag.bsky.social - our long, career-spanning, heartbreaking & inspiring conversation is the epic cover story of the brand new issue, out now.
Go buy it, and KEEP ON CHOOGLIN’!
Happy 70th birthday to Mick Jones, one quarter of the only band that matters…
“You’re my guitar hero!”
Pics here from 2004 and 2008, enjoying beers at a private lock-in after Carbon/Silicon headlined our SXSW showcase, which had the week’s biggest queue on 6th St.
Stay free!
“You’re my guitar hero!”
Pics here from 2004 and 2008, enjoying beers at a private lock-in after Carbon/Silicon headlined our SXSW showcase, which had the week’s biggest queue on 6th St.
Stay free!
June 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Happy 70th birthday to Mick Jones, one quarter of the only band that matters…
“You’re my guitar hero!”
Pics here from 2004 and 2008, enjoying beers at a private lock-in after Carbon/Silicon headlined our SXSW showcase, which had the week’s biggest queue on 6th St.
Stay free!
“You’re my guitar hero!”
Pics here from 2004 and 2008, enjoying beers at a private lock-in after Carbon/Silicon headlined our SXSW showcase, which had the week’s biggest queue on 6th St.
Stay free!
Happy 78th birthday Mick Fleetwood!
I spoke with Mick in 2017 about early Fleetwood Mac, as documented in his book, Love That Burns. As we finished, and he considered his whole dramatic FM journey, he said: “No matter what, this has all been worth a damn. It’s been worth it.”
I spoke with Mick in 2017 about early Fleetwood Mac, as documented in his book, Love That Burns. As we finished, and he considered his whole dramatic FM journey, he said: “No matter what, this has all been worth a damn. It’s been worth it.”
June 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Happy 78th birthday Mick Fleetwood!
I spoke with Mick in 2017 about early Fleetwood Mac, as documented in his book, Love That Burns. As we finished, and he considered his whole dramatic FM journey, he said: “No matter what, this has all been worth a damn. It’s been worth it.”
I spoke with Mick in 2017 about early Fleetwood Mac, as documented in his book, Love That Burns. As we finished, and he considered his whole dramatic FM journey, he said: “No matter what, this has all been worth a damn. It’s been worth it.”
Happy 81st birthday Ray Davies, the greatest chronicler of British life in song.
“I’m a kind of inarticulate person,” the quiet and humble writer told me in 2017, “but when I get a guitar and I get a phrase, I can communicate more in a line than I can if we spoke all day.”
“I’m a kind of inarticulate person,” the quiet and humble writer told me in 2017, “but when I get a guitar and I get a phrase, I can communicate more in a line than I can if we spoke all day.”
June 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Happy 81st birthday Ray Davies, the greatest chronicler of British life in song.
“I’m a kind of inarticulate person,” the quiet and humble writer told me in 2017, “but when I get a guitar and I get a phrase, I can communicate more in a line than I can if we spoke all day.”
“I’m a kind of inarticulate person,” the quiet and humble writer told me in 2017, “but when I get a guitar and I get a phrase, I can communicate more in a line than I can if we spoke all day.”
Shared a room with the great @johnfogerty.com tonight. It was mindblowing! I feel blessed! Stay tuned for some rather exciting Fog news, after I had the pleasure of his company last week…! 🤐
#JohnFogerty
#JohnFogerty
June 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Shared a room with the great @johnfogerty.com tonight. It was mindblowing! I feel blessed! Stay tuned for some rather exciting Fog news, after I had the pleasure of his company last week…! 🤐
#JohnFogerty
#JohnFogerty
Happy birthday to the greatest songwriter ever. We should be so thankful for all that Paul McCartney has blessed us with - to us, they’re life’s treasures; to him, it’s natural. “To me,” he once told me, “it’s songs of mine that I want people to hear just cos I think they’re good.” We do too! HBPM!
June 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Happy birthday to the greatest songwriter ever. We should be so thankful for all that Paul McCartney has blessed us with - to us, they’re life’s treasures; to him, it’s natural. “To me,” he once told me, “it’s songs of mine that I want people to hear just cos I think they’re good.” We do too! HBPM!
Losing Brian Wilson is a crushing blow. The beautiful music he blessed the world with changed everything - culture, history, art - and made all our lives richer for it. Thank you for all you leave behind, Brian. The world is a better place for having had you in it. RIP.
June 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Losing Brian Wilson is a crushing blow. The beautiful music he blessed the world with changed everything - culture, history, art - and made all our lives richer for it. Thank you for all you leave behind, Brian. The world is a better place for having had you in it. RIP.
Happy 84th, Bob Dylan!
May 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Happy 84th, Bob Dylan!
Being invited into the home of one of the most inspirational stars of our time was a real honour of my life. The music he has gifted the world is as timeless & important as his humanitarian efforts, which continue to save the lives of millions. We’re so lucky to have him. Happy birthday Elton John!
March 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Being invited into the home of one of the most inspirational stars of our time was a real honour of my life. The music he has gifted the world is as timeless & important as his humanitarian efforts, which continue to save the lives of millions. We’re so lucky to have him. Happy birthday Elton John!
Late to the party, but just finished the best Beatles book ever. The depth of detail & knowledge is testament to @marklewisohn.bsky.social’s exhaustive dedication to uncovering every true inch of the band’s journey. Fascinating, insightful, recommended. Now waiting for vol.2! #TheBeatles
March 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Late to the party, but just finished the best Beatles book ever. The depth of detail & knowledge is testament to @marklewisohn.bsky.social’s exhaustive dedication to uncovering every true inch of the band’s journey. Fascinating, insightful, recommended. Now waiting for vol.2! #TheBeatles
It’s Pattie’s Day on St Patrick’s Day! ☘️
Wishing a very happy 81st birthday to Pattie Boyd.🎂
#thebeatles
Wishing a very happy 81st birthday to Pattie Boyd.🎂
#thebeatles
March 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
It’s Pattie’s Day on St Patrick’s Day! ☘️
Wishing a very happy 81st birthday to Pattie Boyd.🎂
#thebeatles
Wishing a very happy 81st birthday to Pattie Boyd.🎂
#thebeatles
Sending love and energy through the universe to the spirit of David Johansen, the last living New York Doll. Thank you for the music. Go listen to the Dolls’ self-titled debut album now - perhaps the most influential blueprint for what would become punk - and turn it up loud.
March 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Sending love and energy through the universe to the spirit of David Johansen, the last living New York Doll. Thank you for the music. Go listen to the Dolls’ self-titled debut album now - perhaps the most influential blueprint for what would become punk - and turn it up loud.
Roger Daltrey, the bloody guvnor, is 81! The voice behind My Generation, Baba O’Riley, Won’t Get Fooled Again & more: still a golden god of rock ‘n’ roll. As he told me in 2019, “You wanna be a singer? This is gonna take discipline.” Lucky for us, he had it. Happy birthday, Rog!
March 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Roger Daltrey, the bloody guvnor, is 81! The voice behind My Generation, Baba O’Riley, Won’t Get Fooled Again & more: still a golden god of rock ‘n’ roll. As he told me in 2019, “You wanna be a singer? This is gonna take discipline.” Lucky for us, he had it. Happy birthday, Rog!
Sending love & energy through the universe to the spirit of Brian Jones: Rolling Stones founder, guitarist & gilded butterfly, born OTD in 1942. “There was nothing the matter with Brian,” George Harrison said, “that a little extra love wouldn’t have cured.” Happy birthday Brian, wherever you are.
February 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Sending love & energy through the universe to the spirit of Brian Jones: Rolling Stones founder, guitarist & gilded butterfly, born OTD in 1942. “There was nothing the matter with Brian,” George Harrison said, “that a little extra love wouldn’t have cured.” Happy birthday Brian, wherever you are.
It’s giving strong Biff’s Pleasure Paradise vibes…
February 26, 2025 at 9:44 AM
It’s giving strong Biff’s Pleasure Paradise vibes…
Sending love and energy through the universe to the spirit of the wonderful Marianne Faithfull. A true survivor and icon, she leaves behind exquisite music, and a life well lived. Travel well, Marianne. 🖤
January 31, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Sending love and energy through the universe to the spirit of the wonderful Marianne Faithfull. A true survivor and icon, she leaves behind exquisite music, and a life well lived. Travel well, Marianne. 🖤