{"id":22,"date":"2014-07-06T15:26:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T15:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicsingersongwriters.co.uk\/sandg\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:44:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:44:51","slug":"ians-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/classicsingersongwriters.co.uk\/sandg\/about\/ians-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian&#8217;s Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2012 was the year that Ian Bailey finally decided to put some time aside to leave the studio \u2014 where he has spent a decade helping and producing a variety of singer \u2014 songwriters, and to take to the road with Tim Chu as one half of &#8216;<em>A Celebration of Simon &amp; Garfunkel<\/em>&#8216;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The songs of Simon &amp; Garfunkel have always been a major influence on Ian&#8217;s own songwriting, he fondly remembers late nights listening to his father&#8217;s transistor radio tuned into Radio Luxembourg and hearing &#8216;America&#8217; for the first time. &#8220;It was everything I loved about songwriting \u2014 where the melody and words effortlessly combine and produce real magic&#8221; he would say later. &#8220;Having the opportunity to sing and play the music of the iconic duo is a wonderful experience, whether it&#8217;s taking people back down memory lane or introducing a younger generation to the music of Simon &amp; Garfunkel, performing and celebrating their songs is simply a joy!&#8221; Ian has written and produced 7 solo albums and continues to collaborate with other songwriters to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012 was the year that Ian Bailey finally decided to put some time aside to leave the studio \u2014 where he has spent a decade helping and producing a variety of singer \u2014 songwriters, and to take to the road with Tim Chu as one half of &#8216;A Celebration of Simon &amp; Garfunkel&#8216; The songs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicsingersongwriters.co.uk\/sandg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicsingersongwriters.co.uk\/sandg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicsingersongwriters.co.uk\/sandg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicsingersongwriters.co.uk\/sandg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicsingersongwriters.co.uk\/sandg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/classicsingersongwriters.co.uk\/sandg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/classicsingersongwriters.co.uk\/sandg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/1177"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicsingersongwriters.co.uk\/sandg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicsingersongwriters.co.uk\/sandg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}