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Simon Jeffes

real name Simon Harry Piers Jeffes

Crawley, United Kingdom

Simon Jeffes is credited on 583 releases across 111 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1971–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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583

Credits

111

Albums

6

Decades active

106

In collections

Biography

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British composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, born 19 February 1949 in Crawley, West Sussex; died 10 December 1997 in Taunton, Somerset.
Founder of the Penguin Café Quartet (opens in a new tab), which became the Penguin Café Orchestra (opens in a new tab) at a later stage. Raised in Canada and around Europe, Jeffes began playing the guitar at the age of 13 while attending boarding school in England and then studied classical guitar, piano, and music theory at Chiswick Polytechnic, but dropped out before graduating.
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Credited work

583 releases · 111 albums · active 1971–2025

  • Performance · 2,334
  • Other credits · 867
  • Production · 244
  • Engineering · 1

Studios: Penguin Cafe · Farmyard Studios · Air Studios · Trident Studios

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