Simon Matthews

SIMON MATTHEWS has had a varied career including serving as a local councillor in London for more than ten years, a spell running the British Transport Films documentary film library and several years singing in semiprofessional rock groups. He has contributed articles on music, film and cultural history to Record Collector , Shindig! and Lobster magazines. Psychedelic Celluloid , his illustrated history of UK music, film and TV between 1965 and 1974, was published by Oldcastle Books in 2016;...See more

SIMON MATTHEWS has had a varied career including serving as a local councillor in London for more than ten years, a spell running the British Transport Films documentary film library and several years singing in semiprofessional rock groups. He has contributed articles on music, film and cultural history to Record Collector , Shindig! and Lobster magazines. Psychedelic Celluloid , his illustrated history of UK music, film and TV between 1965 and 1974, was published by Oldcastle Books in 2016; the sequel, Looking for a New England , followed in 2021. He is also the author of House in the Country , Free Your Mind! and Before It Went Rotten . See less