Perfect Songs

Paul Simm

2010-03-10T20:46:58Z

Perfect Songs is proud to represent a catalogue of more than 50 songs written and and co-written by Paul Simm. Overload (a UK #6 hit in 2000), their 2001 hit single Run For Cover (UK #13), and Siobhan Donaghy’s debut single Overrated (UK #19, 2003). As a result of his work on Overload, Paul also has a co-writing credit on Make Over, a song from Christina Aguilera's multi-million selling Stripped album. Paul's other credits include It's Not Easy (from Mutya Buena's 2007 top ten album Real Girl), Twisted Mess (recorded by Neneh Cherry for the 1999 Reese Witherspoon movie soundtrack Best Laid Plans), Hot Section (for N*SYNC's JC Chasez), Square Peg (from Beverly Knight's acclaimed 2009 album 100%) and Close to the Front (recorded and released by Amy Winehouse as the B-side to her worldwide hit, Rehab).
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Trevor Horn.com

2009-09-01T17:50:15Z

Launching today is a brand new website for producer, artist - and founder of Perfect Songs - Trevor Horn. www.trevorhorn.com to read about Trevor's latest work with Robbie Williams and Escala, and to chart his award-winning productions, songs and performances from 1977 to the present day.]]>

The Proposal synchs Relax

2009-08-18T14:18:50Z

Box office blockbuster The Proposal – starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds – has synched Perfect classic Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood.]]> LA Times reports, "The Proposal is just a good old-fashioned romance, one in which people actually bring out the best in one another rather than the worst. How novel is that?"

Volkswagen synchs Seal

2009-08-10T14:16:47Z

Seal's The Right Life is the soundtrack to the new Volkswagen Tiguan TV commercial. The commercial also stars the singer/songwriter and his wife Heidi Klum and has so far aired in Singapore, Slovenia, Japan, Lebanon, Dubai, Korea, Poland and China. Having spent 2009 on the road – playing live in Paris, Brussels, Montreaux and London – Seal will begin writing and recording a new album in September.

Kid Harpoon on BBC iPlayer

2009-07-27T14:55:54Z

We now have release date for Kid Harpoon's new album. ]]> Young Turks label. BBC Radio 1 played host to Kid Harpoon again recently, when he played Back from Beyond and Stealing Cars on Nick Grimshaw's show. It's availavble to listen again on the BBC iPlayer. Kid Harpoon on MySpace: www.myspace.com/kidharpoon

Kid Harpoon in Session

2009-07-16T15:36:02Z

Kid Harpoon played his summer anthem-in-waiting new single live on BBC Radio 1 this week. New Music We Trust show - was filmed as well as recorded, featured Katie Melua, Jack Penate, Seb Roachford, and you can stream it back by clicking here. ]]>

Alistair Griffin co-writes with Cascada

2009-07-01T15:46:47Z

Perfect songwriter Alistair Griffin has co-written a track on the new album by million-selling dance act Cascada. www.cascadamusic.de.]]>

Kid Harpoon is Stealing Cars

2009-05-25T10:08:35Z

Perfect singer-songwriter Kid Harpoon is about to release a whole new body of work. www.kidharpoon.net. Produced by Trevor Horn, it will be followed by a full album in September.]]>

Cold Case and Eli Stone synch Seal

2009-04-27T17:12:24Z

US prime-time drama Cold Case, which reaches its season finale next week, recently synched the classic Seal song Crazy. Crazy - and Seal's rendition of Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come - were also recently synched to Eli Stone, the comedy drama starring Jonny Lee Miller in the title role. But they weren't as soundtrack beds - Seal appeared live on stage singing A Change Is Gonna Come, and romanced two lead characters in their office singing Crazy. You can watch video excerpts of both songs on Seal's official website. ]]>

Entourage synchs Mark Morrison

2009-04-20T17:08:12Z

We've recently added an extensive biography of Mark Morrison to PerfectSongs.com. Click here to read about his career, collaborations and catalogue. Mark's classic Return of the Mack was recently synched to episode one of season five US prime-time drama Entourage. Play the video to the right to hear the song as the lead character hides out in the Fantasy Island of the episode's title.]]>

Marsha Ambrosius with Nas and Jamie Foxx

2009-04-13T17:02:13Z

If I Ruled the World '09 is the latest track from Grammy-nominated Perfect songwriter Marsha Ambrosius. Nas for Smirnoff's Signature Mix campaign, and is the second year in a row that Marsha has worked on the project, which hooks up emerging and established R&B talent to create brand new remixes. Marsha spoke to hip hop site Never Satisfied about this and her recent co-write with Jamie Foxx. "Freak’in Me appeared late last year on Foxx's third studio album, Intuition which peaked at #3 on the Billboard album chart and #1 on US R&B/Hip Hop albums charts.]]>

Mark Morrison

2009-04-07T19:20:13Z

A string of collaborations, remixes and samples are keeping the unique R&B voice of Mark Morrison alive throughout the 00s. DMX. It's the latest take on the lead track from his 2006 album, which also appeared in sample form on Innocent Man (Misunderstood) by Cassidy which charted at #3 on Billboard's Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart in November 2007. Of course Innocent Man isn't the only bona fide classic in Mark's catalogue. His breakthrough single - Return of the Mack - became a top ten hit across Europe in 1996, reached #2 in the US, and cemented his position as one of the most successful British urban R&B singers of the mid-'90s. Return of the Mack paved the way for four more top ten hits - Crazy, Trippin', Horny and Moan and Groan - all of which make regular appearances on contemporary compilations of R&B, swing, slow jams, and 90s dance and chart hits. And the Return of the Mack album contained all these hits and more and reached #4 on the UK Album Chart. A raft of awards followed as Mark was nominated for four Brit Awards, a Mercury Music Prize nomination, an MTV Europe Music Awards nomination and five MOBO Awards nominations, where he took home Best R&B Act. Other highlights from Mark's extensive catalogue include Only God Can Judge Me (the renown EP mixing the #13 single Who's The Mack with interviews and prayers) and the Innocent Man album which has a host of collaborations including Backstabbers (feat. Daz Dillinger & Tray Deee), Dance 4 Me (feat. reggae artist Tanya Stephens), Lately (feat. Elephant Man), Best Friend (feat. Gabrielle & Connor Reeves), Damn Damn Damn (feat. Adina Howard), Journeys (feat. Mica Paris & the All Saints Road Community Choir), Just A Man (feat. Alexander O'Neal) and - bringing the story full circle - the original version of Innocent Man (feat. Tippa Irie). ]]>

Shades of Rhythm

2009-04-07T17:23:33Z

Pioneering dance songwriters whose 90s classic The Sound of Eden became the massive 00s single Everytime I See Her when covered by Positiva act Another Chance. If 808 State were The Beatles of the early 90s techno explosion then Shades of Rhythm were surely the Rolling Stones. Or maybe it's the other way around - 808, like Jagger and Richards have soldiered on for decades, whereas Shades lasted for just a short, explosive and highly influential time. Their story starts in Peterborough 1988 with Lanx, Nick Slater and Rayan Gee meeting for secret jam sessions in a TV repair shop. When Rayan got a DJ residency at local club The Attic the trio began performing live, even before they'd chosen a name for themselves. "In those days, we had aspirations of being as important to dance music as The Rolling Stones were to rock," remembers Rayan. "At the time there wasn't an established dance act in the UK, it was simply a question of charging into the charts (if you were lucky), and then adding your name to a long list of one-hit wonders. We wanted more for Shades Or Rhythm, we wanted to be respected both on stage and on vinyl…" S/O/R's first release - the Just Feel It 12", which they'd recorded at Soundspot Studios in Bedfordshire - appeared on Stevie V.'s Beat Box Records. But they released its follow-up themselves - the massively influential Frequency which contained raw versions of bleep-electro-classics like Homicide and Exorcist. "We had no idea what people would think to our music," they later said, "we just loaded (my car) up with 1000 records and hit two towns, London and Manchester. First stop was Mash in Oxford Street. The guy behind the counter took one listen, looked up and said 'leave me 100 and save me another 100'… Shades then wrote a stream of classic dance singles, completely side-stepping rave's cheesy, sample-driven novelty singles in favour of a unique disco/electro/techno collision. First up, Homicide/Exorcist in January 1991 then, in April, Sweet Sensation and, that August, the #35 hit The Sound of Eden and Armageddon. By the end of that year S/O/R were at number 14 in the UK singles chart with Extacy, their debut album, Shades had sold over 50,000 copies and they'd also remixed the era-defining Set You Free by N-Trance. All these records were supported by live appearances at legendary 90s raves, like Technodrome and Fantazia which audiences often topping 10,000. The band's next two singles went underground. Fear of the Future - a mesmerising dark acid set - turned into the b-side of their next single Happy Feelings. They pushed the rave feeling further into new territory with Sweet Revival and the soulful His Mix/Her Mix face-off of Getting Away. Shades also regularly appeared on some of the major dance compilations of the day, like Deep Heat, Total Science, Cream Live, Hard Fax, Essential Hardcore and ZTT's own Zance. And their music is regularly licensed to Old School and Rave compilations in the 00s.

Press Release: Perfect Songs Reports...

2009-03-31T14:39:31Z

Perfect Songs Reports Busiest First Quarter in Five Years... Prodigy Album Co-writes and Virgin Atlantic Synch Keep UK Independent on Top Perfect Songs, one of the UK's longest running and most successful independent music publishers, is enjoying one of it's most profitable quarters of the decade thanks to a string of high-profile projects. Prefect's Tim Hutton recently hit number one in the official UK Album Chart with several co-writtes tracks on The Prodigy's number one album Invaders Must Die including the lead single, Omen (which peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart). Hutton has been signed to perfect since 2004 and has previously collaborated with Groove Armada, Ian Brown and Mutya Buena (Song 4 Mutya). "What strikes you at every turn is how very effortless it all sounds," writes The Times' Pete Paphides of Invaders Must Die. "The album works at a basic irreducible level, as all great pop does. You hear it once, and you want to hear it all over again..." This follows another high profile project for Perfect Songs: January's synch of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Relax in Virgin Atlantic Airways' acclaimed, £6 million TV ad campaign. Both the airline - and Frankie's song - celebrate their 25th anniversaries this year and Relax can be heard throughout the commercial, which was put together by Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R and will air around the world for the next 12 months. Described by marketing Bible MAD as “a strong contender for ad of the year,” it has been praised for “the ever-throbbing soundtrack of Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s Relax,” One of the most contentious and well known songs in the Perfect catalogue. “2009 – our 27th year in business! - is shaping up to be one one of our busiest ever,” comments Clive Black, recently appointed as General Manager of Perfect Songs and its parent SPZ Group. “we have a synch catalogue that the ad, film and TV industry loves, and a brace of fresh, active songwriters who are building for the future.”

Tim Hutton and The Prodigy at Number One

2009-03-05T20:21:01Z

Congratulations to Perfect songwriter Tim Hutton, whose collaborations on the new Prodigy album Invaders Must Die hit number one on the offical album chart this week. ]]> Thunder, as well as the lead single, Omen and Omen Reprise. You can also hear Tim on guitar on the track Colours and horns on Piranha. "What strikes you at every turn is how very effortless it all sounds," writes The Times' Pete Paphides of Invaders Must Die. "The album works at a basic irreducible level, as all great pop does. You hear it once, and you want to hear it all over again..."