CLIMIE FISHER

CLIMIE FISHER

The story about Climie Fisher began at the famous Abbey Road studios, where Rob Fisher
on keyboards and Simon Climie on vocals were booked into the same demo session as
musicians on Scritti Politti's Cupid & Psyche LP.
They started talking about The Beatles and other great music in the bar at the studios.
Climie was looking for a partner to write songs with and Fisher was looking for a singer...
and so they started.

Rob was at the time involved in a band called Naked Eyes and Simon was working as an
arranger and Fairlight programmer with producer Steve Lillywhite.
It wasn't until about a year before they got together and formed CLIMIE FISHER and began
recording.

Rob Fisher was born in New Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England on November 5th, 1959.
In 1979 Rob met singer Pete Byrne and they formed Neon (later Naked Eyes).  Their debut
album "Burning Bridges" gave them two Top 10 singles in America: "Always Something There
To Remind Me" and "Promises Promises".
After the second album the two drifted apart. Rob did some session work, with Billy Ocean
("When The Going Gets Tough"), The Alarm, The Communards and others.

Simon Climie was born in Fulham, England on April 7, 1960.  Simon's father was the editor for
Mad magazine in England. when he was 17 he was signed to a publishing deal with Chrysalis. 
Simon met and started working with Steve Lillywhite.  Lillywhite let him write, play keyboards,
and handle arrangements on two songs for a solo LP by Frida (ABBA). Lillywhite encouraged
Simon to sing and offered to produce him when he was ready.  1986, Simon began getting
his songs covered by the likes of Smokey Robinson ("No Time To Stop Believing"), Jeff Beck,
Pat Benatar ("Invincible", Aretha Franklin and George Michael ("I Knew You Were Waiting For
Me," co-written with Denis Morgan), and Rod Stewart ("The One You Love").

CLIMIE FISHER recorded their first album including hits like: their first single "Love Changes
(Everything)" and "Rise To The Occasion".
Coming In For The Kill was Climie Fisher's second album, recorded in New York, Los Angeles,
and London; co-written with Dennis Morgan, except for the title track which was written with
Lamont Dozier. It wasn't the same success as the first one and later the band broke.

What happened then?

Simon Climie

He continued as a producer and songwriter. He have been producing Eric Clapton and
many others.
Simon also released a solo album called "Soul Inspiration".
He also has his own publishing and production company called Signia Music.
check his home page for more info: http://www.simonclimie.com

Rob Fisher

Rob sadly passed away on August 25th 1999. He had been sick for some time and was
admitted to hospital for an emergency stomach operation. He never recovered.
after Climie Fisher he got back together to work with Pete Byrne as NAKED EYES.
A new Naked Eyes song titled "The Last To Know" was set up in MP3 format on Pete Byrne's
PJB Music web site: http://www.pjbmusic.com
A lot of info on Climie Fisher (where I found a lot of the info above) is found at:
http://www.interlog.com/~dolphind/cfisher.html

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