Simon Goddard (born 21 December 1971) is a British author and music journalist.
Goddard is the great-great-great nephew of the Victorian artist and designer George Charles Haité and prior to journalism studied fine art. In 1995 he directed and designed the promo video for Edwyn Collins' single "If You Could Love Me". He has written two books on The Smiths and their former lead singer Morrissey, Songs That Saved Your Life and Mozipedia. His third book titled Ziggyology - A Brief History of Ziggy Stardust was published in March 2013.
Famous quotes containing the words songs, saved and/or life:
“People fall out of windows, trees tumble down,
Summer is changed to winter, the young grow old
The air is full of children, statues, roofs
And snow. The theatre is spinning round,
Colliding with deaf-mute churches and optical trains.
The most massive sopranos are singing songs of scales.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“You and I have two bodies, aye, very different sorts of bodies, but we’re closer than if we were in the same skin. For I saved that skin o’ yours once, and you’ll not forget it.”
—Philip MacDonald, and Robert Wise. Gray (Boris Karloff)
“The goal in raising one’s child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person who can be satisfied with himself and his way of life. Eventually he ought to be able to do in his life whatever seems important, desirable, and worthwhile to him to do; to develop relations with other people that are constructive, satisfying, mutually enriching; and to bear up well under the stresses and hardships he will unavoidably encounter during his life.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)