Talk:Simon Drake

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:"Drake was the illusionist on the 1993-1994 Iron Maiden tour and is featured in their live concert film, Raising Hell"
Circusandmagicfan 11:41, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
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message: We know his birthday is the 1st March as he says so here: http://www.houseofmagic.co.uk/news.html
"Simon will be appearing on the Gadget Show on Channel 5
on the 1st March (which is also his birthday!) "
We also know his age, as he says he is the same age as David copperfield here in this interview:
http://itricks.com/news/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/MWiR100508.mp3
So in 2011 he is 54 (as is copperfield), so he must have been born on March 1st, 1957  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Confusedmiked (talk • contribs) 11:11, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: He was born 1/3/56 in fact. 92.26.170.175 (talk) 11:32, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of Birth

message: Circusandmagicfan, I have just looked back at these pages after leaving them for a while to see whether it is only the two of us (and maybe Drake's brother) who are interested. At the moment it seems that it is. This is a pity, for two reasons:
1) you have accused me of goodness knows what personal agenda, and my contributions may therefore be seen as somehow suspicious (but if you check you will see that I hardly contribute to Drake or magic at all, just got into this because of being a "Secret Cabaret" fan when the show was on) - it would be better if other experienced editors passed comment or worked on the page
2) quite by chance (while looking something up about Pink Floyd) I have just tripped over a book with some references that  
:(a) show that Drake's real name is no big secret (contrary to the various claims so far), as it's been published recently in a book about Arthur Brown and in a section by Drake himself
:(b) provide some straightforward reminiscence by Drake on his early life, including his work as a record plugger.
Given the first point I wish this material had been found by you or someone else, but there it is. I haven't got time today to work on the page, but here's some of the passage (which maybe you can use to improve the entry) - from "The God of Hellfire: The Crazy Life and Times of Arthur Brown" by Polly Marshall, SAF Publishing 2005, page 138:
Simon Alexander - now Simon Drake, magician - was working there [Gull record company] as an office boy. He tells the story: "Arthur's single 'Fire' was the first record I bought at the age of 12, the same year my father was cremated. As the years went on I saw Arthur at the Rainbow with Kingdom Come. I was a huge fan. At Gull I was the office boy. But I was young and always going out to clubs seeing what was going on...I was promoted to plugger. I took Arthur round for interviews with the radio, and got to know him as a person. He came round to my squat in West London - of course we weren't paid enough to afford a flat."
Testbed 18:09, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simon Alexander and early life 

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message: Reading through the talk page here is insane, and reading the actual page itself is hilarious. Clearly, this article was written by Simon Drake, a member of their team, or someone close to them. I've taken the opportunity to remove any apocryphal parts, any reviews, and anything that was either irrelevant or un-cited. If anyone has a problem with any of it, I'm happy to discuss. This website isn't an advertising service, and should not be used as such.  JFezRidesAgain (talk) 16:48, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clear editorialising - client journalism?