Creative Accounting

In this final Entry, David Simmons reflects on his career and journey through Creative Accounting. Including the recurring value of his innate ability to act and capitalise on his proximity to the currency of chaos, chance and opportunity. How once let into this artistic and financial conversation, he may have also pioneered certain templates and instruments that helped better merge and blend the creative alchemy between music + business. Finally, he recounts how when he became the accountant for Culture Club as they went on to become the biggest band in the world, his daughter’s childhood drawing of Boy George ended up on their album cover. Additionally, how their global success and the doors it opened up everywhere, led him to blur the line that he had consistently managed to maintain between the chaos of work and the stability of home, by finally bringing his wife on the road with him for the first time!

In the Entry we get insight into the fragile and tragic descent of Peter Green - now recognised as one of the great British blues guitarists of all time. After founding the original Fleetwood Mac, he then entered an acid driven lost and listless period, which saw him became a gravedigger who wanted to give his money away and thought his best financial option to do so was to acquire a gun to shoot his accountant. Who happened to be David Simmons!

In this Entry of Creative Accounting, David Simmons describes how on several occasions in his career he was repeatedly asked to improvise in the role as the money man. Frequently brought in to tap dance a way out of a potentially tricky creative situation and navigate a path through a financial tight spot. This leads him into a series of bizarre cameos featuring Lee "Scratch" Perry, Marcus Garvey Jr., Motown and The Spirit of Africa and Ike Turner where he was frequently the only white man in the room.

In this Entry of Creative Accounting, David Simmons audits the hidden commercial factors and forgotten component parts that might have eventually led to Bob Marley achieving his legendary worldwide iconic status. 

In this Entry of Creative Accounting, David Simmons talks about the chance encounter and life changing experience of meeting and becoming the business partner of Danny Sims. Which opened up a strangely compelling strange portal into the world of Jamaica, Rastafari, Reggae,  Bob Marley and chaos!

In this Entry of Creative Accounting, David Simmons recounts his misadventures and misdemeanours with legendary band Motörhead. In particular his pivotal role from the sleepy suburb of North London in keeping their iconic frontman Lemmy in prison in Finland for a few extra days because it was cheaper and safer than a hotel - sparking a riot that has gone into metal folklore in the process.

The first Entry of the Creative Accounting podcast.  Where David Simmons finally goes on the record and starts to completely open up and recollect to his son about accidentally finding himself pivotal to the financial and commercial wellbeing of some of the most important icons of the 20th Century music business.