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EP177 - Simon Halfon - Graphic designer and Film Producer - The Style Council, Paul Weller Solo, The Jam...

EP177 - Simon Halfon - Graphic designer and Film Producer - The Style Council, Paul Weller Solo, The Jam...

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Episode 177: Simon Halfon - Graphic designer and Film
Producer on The Style Council, Paul Weller Solo & The
Jam

On this episode of The Paul Weller Fan Podcast, we hear from
graphic designer and film producer, Simon Halfon
to discuss his incredible porfolio of work with The Jam, The
Style Council and Paul Weller solo...

We find out about his love of The Jam - and how he first met Paul
Weller in 1979 following a gig in Bridlington when he and his
mates stayed up with the band drinking and putting the world to
rights until the early hours.

On this podcast chat, we hear how he fell into art design by
accident via the creation of a fanzine (that provided another
early connection to The Jam) to a job in the postroom at Stiff
Records, then assisting Neville Brody at The Face magazine.

The first sleeve Simon designed was for Department S, whose
singer Vaughn Toulouse became part of a gang of friends that
included journalist Paolo Hewitt, DJ Gary Crowley and Siobhan
Fahey of Bananarama.

His first commission as a freelancer in 1982, was by Paul Weller
through the design on the sleeve for a book that he was
publishing about the Small Faces.

When Paul formed The Style Council with Mick Talbot in 1983, it
was Simon that he turned to for the record sleeve designs
starting with Speak Like a Child, right the way through to the
Modernism album cover that was completed for it's ultimate
release in the 90s.

We also chat about Simon's creations with Paul Weller for singles
and albums for 20 years of the solo career - an incredible
collective of work from that first single sleeve from
Into Tomorrow in 1991 and those wonderful
matchday programmes and merch designs, right through to 2010's
Fast Car/Slow Traffic...

Simon also designed every album sleeve with Paul from that debut
solo album through to Wake Up The Nation in
2010...

You'll hear about their shared love of The Beatles (which led to
Simon designing the cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Milk
and Honey album in 1984) and Simon's work with other long
standing clients including the late George Michael and Oasis.

In the mid noughties Simon had started to take an interest in the
film industry, inspired by friendships forged during his time in
LA. He produced his first feature film in 2008, the Kenneth
Branagh directed Sleuth, which was to become the
last screenplay by Harold Pinter and starred Michael Caine &
Jude Law.

But it wasn't until 2016 that Simon really embraced the film
world, when the Gallagher brothers approached him to tell the
story of Oasis. As lead producer, he brought together the team to
create the award winning feature ‘Supersonic’, a documentary of
huge commercial and critical success.

We also chat about the incredible Wham documentary for Netflix
that he produced - which topped the charts in the summer of
2023...

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