Simon Nicol

Quick Facts

Full Name	Simon Nicol
Occupation	Guitarist
Date Of Birth	Oct 13, 1950(1950-10-13)
Age	74
Birthplace	Muswell Hill
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Libra

Simon Nicol Biography

Simon Nicol is one of the most popular and richest Guitarist who was born on October 13, 1950 in Muswell Hill, England, United Kingdom.

Born in Muswell Hill, North London, Nicol was the son of a general practitioner, who died in 1964. He began to play guitar at age 11 and left school at 15. In 1966 he was asked to join local band the Ethnic Shuffle Orchestra by bass guitarist Ashley Hutchings, and soon left his job at a local cinema to play full-time. They rehearsed above his father’s old surgery in Fairport House, which gave its name to the band he and Hutchings formed with Richard Thompson and Shaun Frater as Fairport Convention in 1967.

As Thompson emerged as the lead guitarist, Nicol moved towards rhythm duties and occasional backing vocals. After some line-up changes the band enjoyed a degree of commercial success in their early years, with three albums and appearing on Britain’s most popular music programme Top of the Pops in 1969 with the single “Si Tu Dois Partir”, which reached number 21 in the UK Charts. Nicol contributed his first composition to the band for the second album What We Did on Our Holidays, the short instrumental ‘End of a Holiday’. Besides contributing rhythm guitar and backing vocals to this album Nicol also played the autoharp on some songs. Nicol was injured in the accident that killed drummer Martin Lamble on 12 May 1969, but when he and the band were recovered they recorded what is usually considered their masterpiece and the most important single album in British folk rock, Liege and Lief (1969), which is credited as the key recording in the creation of the British folk rock genre and which helped institute a major surge of interest in British folk music.

Simon Nicol Net Worth

Simon Nicol is one of the richest Guitarist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Simon Nicol 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Simon John Breckenridge Nicol (born 13 October 1950) is an English guitarist, singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He was a founding member of British folk rock group Fairport Convention and is the only founding member still in the band. He has also been involved with the Albion Band and a wide range of musical projects, both as a collaborator, producer and as a solo artist. He has received several awards for his work and career.

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In 1976 Nicol also was the main guitarist on Ashley Hutchings’ second Morris dance revival project, Son of Morris On. This album also featured Morris tunes Nicol had already played with the Albion Country Band in 1972.

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Emmanuel Ranked on the list of most popular Guitarist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Simon Nicol celebrates birthday on October 13 of every year.

As the members of the group went their separate ways, Nicol returned to the Albion Band to record two albums in 1983. He toured and recorded with Richard and Linda Thompson from 1979 to 1982 and then with Richard Thompson in 1983 and 1984. He also formed an acoustic duo with Dave Swarbrick, with whom he recorded three albums. He also continued to take part in annual reunions with Fairport at what was now the Cropredy Festival to growing crowds. In 1985 he joined in the recording of the Fairport album Gladys’ Leap, on which, as well as playing guitar, Nicol shared production credits, contributed the song ‘Wat Tyler’, arranged traditional tunes and acted as lead singer for the first time. The album was well received and led to the reformation of the band a year later.