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Simon Rogers
OriginUnited Kingdom
Occupation(s)Musician, producer, composer
Instrument(s)Guitar, bass, keyboards
Years active1980–present

Simon Rogers is an English musician, record producer, and BAFTA and EMMY nominated composer, who has been a member of The Fall and The Lightning Seeds.[1]

Biography

In 1976, Rogers entered the

Ballet Rambert's Mercury Ensemble as their guitarist. During this period he composed several ballet scores, including Entre Dos Aguas and Fabrications for London Contemporary Dance Theatre. He also made his first commercial hit, joining the South American folk music group Incantation who enjoyed some UK and international chart success in the early 1980s, their best known single being "Cacharpaya".[2]

In 1985, Rogers left both Rambert and Incantation and joined the post-punk group

Peter Murphy
.

He began to compose for television whilst at Rambert and his credits include TV dramas such as

The Rainbow (1988) as well as two American TV movies, Daddy (1987) and The Preppie Murder (1989) for ABC
.

In the 1990s, Rogers continued to work in music production, beginning a long association with

Tilt as well as the football anthem "Three Lions". He also returned to The Fall to produce the majority of The Infotainment Scan. 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 Boy George'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 John Digweed’s Bedrock Records
label.

In 2003, he returned to television music, scoring 40 (starring

Dalziel and Pascoe
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

Emmy Award 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.[5] He also composed the music for The Dumping Ground since its second season.[6]
He was BAFTA nominated in the Music Factual category in 2024 for "A Time To Die" an ITV documentary dealing with assisted dying.

See also

  • List of The Fall members

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-8582-8457-6
  2. ^ Pringle (2022), p. 162
  3. ISBN 978-1-8582-8457-6
    . Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  4. ^ Pringle (2022), pp. 188, 190
  5. ^ "Full Cast & Crew: Young Dracula (TV Series 2006-)". IMDb. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  6. ^ "Full Cast & Crew: The Dumping Ground (TV Series 2013- )". IMDb. Retrieved 27 December 2017.

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