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Simon 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

Pressings credited

111

Albums

6

Decades active

101

In collections

Biography

Simon Harry Piers Jeffes (19 February 1949 – 11 December 1997) was an English classically trained guitarist, composer and arranger. He formed, and was the primary performer of, the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. He was the composer of the ballet Still Life at the Penguin Cafe, of the much-recorded piece Music for a Found Harmonium, and other music recorded by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. He is also known for assisting Sex Pistols producer Bill Price with the string arrangement for the Sid Vicious version of "My Way" which reached #7 on the UK singles charts as part of The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle soundtrack. A recording of piano works by Jeffes, Piano Music, was released by Zopf Records in 1998.

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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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