Simon Cowell

Person · Open Library

Works

6

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1959-10-07

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

195

Total plays

695

Simon Phillip Cowell (born 7 October 1959) is a British music executive, television producer and entrepreneur. He is known in the United Kingdom and in the United States for his role as a talent judge on TV shows such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent, and American Idol. He is also the owner of the television production and music publishing house Syco. Cowell is notorious as a judge for his blunt and often controversial criticisms, insults and wisecracks about contestants and their

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2

   · 2014 · cited 88,540x

2. Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

   · 2003 · cited 52,668x

3. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,600x

4. PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation

   · 2018 · cited 36,259x

5. Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis

   · 2002 · cited 32,053x

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Quotes

• “Very simple. I'm putting up the money, and I also have ears.”
• “You know Paula, who I couldn't look at the beginning of the series... I love her to death now. I hate to admit it but I do.”
• “Sinitta and Jackie are my family now. I don't think of them as ex-girlfriends anymore. They are an extension of my life... It must be infuriating, but I'd never change because my ex-girlfriends are so close I couldn't imagine life without them.”
• “Normally, they want me to be rude to them. People come up to me and sing, and I say "That was great. Thank you." And they're like "Well, aren't you going to be rude to me?" No! When I miss auditions, contestants get upset that I'm not there, because they expect me to be cruel to them — it's some sort of badge of honor. That's how crazy everything is.”
• “If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I'm pleasant, but the parts when I'm obnoxious.”

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