Question: "Simon Turner" is the debut album of the singer and later film soundtrack composer Simon Fisher Turner, at the time Turner was being widely promoted in the UK pop press as a homegrown alternative to David Cassidy, he is known for his role as who?

Context articles: Rock Me Baby (album)
Simon Turner (album)
Oil &amp; Gold
David Cassidy discography
Cassidy Live!
David Cassidy
Get Lucky (Jermaine Stewart song)
The Great White Silence
One Small Step: The Story of the Space Chimps
Joe Lynn Turner

Rock Me Baby is the second solo album release from David Cassidy.
 It was released in 1972 and produced by Wes Farrell on Bell Records.
 It contains one song written by Cassidy called "Two Time Loser" and a song he co-wrote with Kim Carnes entitled "Song for a Rainy Day".
 The album peaked at #2 in the UK album charts and featured the #1 single "How Can I Be Sure".
 The album's title track was recorded around the same time by UK group Brotherhood of Man, but they shelved their release when Cassidy had a top 20 hit with it.
 The album was reissued on Compact Disc by Arista Records in 2003.
"Simon Turner" is the debut album of the singer and later film soundtrack composer Simon Fisher Turner.
 It was released in 1973 on UK Records.
 At the time Turner was being widely promoted in the UK pop press as a homegrown alternative to David Cassidy.
 The album featured a combination of covers, including David Bowie's "The Prettiest Star", and original songs mainly written by the producer Jonathan King.
Oil & Gold, the third full-length Shriekback studio album, is widely considered the band's highest moment.
 Released in 1985 on Arista Records in UK and Europe, Australia and New Zealand and on Island Records in the United States, after 1984's "Jam Science" on Arista Records, "Oil & Gold" saw the band metamorphose from contemplative to rocking.
 The addition of Martyn Barker on drums and Lu Edmonds on guitar gives many of the songs an almost punk rock feeling, although the album also features synthesizers from film soundtrack composer Hans Zimmer.
The discography of David Cassidy, an American pop artist, consists of twelve studio albums, three live albums, six compilation albums, two soundtrack albums, and twenty-four singles.
 David Cassidy has been recording albums since 1970.
 His career is most notable for his solo music and his recordings with the Partridge Family.
Cassidy Live!
 was David Cassidy's fourth solo album and final album released on Bell Records.
 It was released in 1974 and was recorded live in Britain.
 It was produced by Cassidy and Barry Ainsworth on Bell Records.
 The recording captures some of the mass hysteria that surrounded Cassidy's live performances at that time.
 The album peaked at #9 on the UK album charts.
David Bruce Cassidy (born April 12, 1950) is a retired American actor, singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
 He is known for his role as Keith Partridge, the son of Shirley Partridge (played by his stepmother Shirley Jones), in the 1970s musical-sitcom "The Partridge Family", which led to his becoming one of popular culture's teen idols and pop singers of the 1970s.
 He later had a career in both acting and music.
"Get Lucky" is a song by American recording artist Jermaine Stewart's third album "Say It Again", released as a single in 1988.
 It was the second of four singles released from the album.
 "Get Lucky" was written by Errol Brown and Simon Climie.
 Brown was a Jamaican-born singer and songwriter, best known as the frontman of Hot Chocolate.
 Climie is a songwriter and the former lead singer of the 1980s, UK pop duo, Climie Fisher, but is now more well known for his work as a collaborator with Eric Clapton.
The Great White Silence is a 1924 English documentary that contains brief cinematograph sequences taken during the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910–1913.
 The principal filmmaker was photographer Herbert Ponting.
 Originally a silent film, the documentary was restored and re-released in 2011 by the British Film Institute with a musical soundtrack by Simon Fisher Turner.
One Small Step: The Story of the Space Chimps is a 2008 documentary film produced and directed by David Cassidy and Kristin Davy which aired on History Channel UK and CBC Television.
 The film chronicles the real story behind the early use of chimpanzees in space exploration.
 The film was released on DVD in April 2008, after several delays.
 David Cassidy is best known for producing the documentary "" on the Dixie Chicks, and the Disney Channel show "".
Joe Lynn Turner (born Joseph Arthur Mark Linquito, August 2, 1951) is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and producer.
 He is known for his work in the hard rock bands Rainbow and Deep Purple.
 During his career, Turner fronted and played guitar with pop rock band Fandango in the late 1970s; and in the early 80s, he became a member of Rainbow, fronting the band and writing songs with guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore and bassist, and producer, Roger Glover.
 After Rainbow had disbanded (the first time) in March 1984, he pursued a solo career, released one album, Rescue You, and then later did session work, singing background vocals for the likes of Billy Joel, Cher, and Michael Bolton.
 On the advice of Bolton, Turner began recording jingles for radio and television.
 Other songs he had composed or through collaboration with songwriters like Desmond Child and Jack Ponti were being recorded and released by international recording artists Jimmy Barnes, Lee Aaron, and Bonfire.
 Turner had a short-lived association with neoclassical metal guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen and then Deep Purple.
 From the mid-1990s, he resumed his solo career, releasing an additional nine studio and two live recordings.
 Turner did other session work, appearing as lead vocalist on tribute albums and working on projects involving various musical groups including progressive rock band Mother's Army; Bulgarian hard rock band Brazen Abbot; funk rock duo Hughes Turner Project; and classic rock/ progressive rock band Rated X.
 In 2006, Frontiers Records approached Turner to become involved with the AOR side project Sunstorm.
 By 2016, four albums under the Sunstorm name had been released.
 That same year, Turner released "The Sessions" via Cleopatra Records featuring a veritable who's who of classic rock royalty as guest musicians, before resuming his seemingly constant touring schedule back in Europe