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Mick Simpson
12+ albums
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Michael Andrew Simpson (born 14 November 1965) is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was born in Rotherham, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Career In the early 1980s, Simpson found work as a session guitarist on the London scene, after receiving airplay of his track's on BBC Radio 1's "Friday Night Rock Show". In the mid 1990s, Simpson worked with John Parr of 'St Elmo's Fire fame, with his guitar work featured on the album Man with a Vision, and also on hit films such as The Running Man with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Three Men and a Baby with Tom Selleck. Throughout the 1990s, Simpson remained busy working with the UK session drummer and producer Graham Broad, and recorded sessions for Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, Tina Turner, Bryan Adams and Go West. In 2004, his original track "A Father's Son" won an International Songwriters Award, sponsored by the Brits Trust. It received major TV and Radio airplay, along with Simpson's song "Looking Through My Eyes" which was released to raise money and awareness for Autism. In June 2005, Simpson was asked to guest at the 80th birthday celebration of B.B. King at his Blues club in New York. He has also played alongside other guitar greats such as Gary Moore, Snowy White, and Alvin Lee.[citation needed] In the same month Simpson released his long awaited debut solo album Hard Road, on the Mad Ears Productions label. The album received support from Paul Jones (BBC Radio 2), an
