Simon House (29 August 1948 – 25 May 2025) was an English composer and classically trained

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, perhaps best known for his work with

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Career

Before his time with Hawkwind, House played in

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and the Third Ear Band, who contributed the soundtrack to

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''. Guitarist Tony Hill recounted how House became a member of High Tide: " ete Pavli and I werehanging out with and crashing where we could at Mike's or Wayne's. Simon ended up crashing there as well. Simon was playing bass then. He said: 'I used to play violin, you know?' So I said 'Get it!' That was basically it." He joined Hawkwind in 1974. He left the group for

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's band in 1978. Along with other Hawkwind members he was a session musician for

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's '' New Worlds Fair'' in 1975, and also played on solo projects by former Hawkwind members

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and Nik Turner. From the 1970s onward, House cut an album (''Interesting Times'') with Tony Hill under the High Tide banner; released several solo albums under his own name; and twice rejoined Hawkwind – between 1989 and 1991, and between 2001 and 2003. House died on 25 May 2025, at the age of 76.Simon House: born August 29, 1948; died May 25, 2025
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Discography

High Tide

* '' Sea Shanties'' (1969) * ''

'' (1970) * '' Interesting Times'' (1986) * ''Precious Cargo'' (1989) * ''The Flood'' (1990)

Denny Gerrard

* ''Sinister Morning'' (1970)

Third Ear Band

* '' Music from Macbeth'' (1972) * ''The Magus'' (recorded 1972, released 2004)

Hawkwind

* '' Hall of the Mountain Grill'' (1974) * '' Warrior on the Edge of Time'' (1975) * '' Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music'' (1976) * '' Quark, Strangeness and Charm'' (1977) * '' PXR5'' (1979) * ''Lord of Light'' (1987) * '' Space Bandits'' (1989) * '' Palace Springs'' (1990) * ''Live in Nottingham 1990'' (2004) * ''Anthology, 1967-1982'' (1998) * ''Stasis: The U.A. Years, 1971-1975'' (2003) * ''Yule Ritual'' (2002) * ''Canterbury Fayre 2001'' (2002) * ''The Weird Tapes No. 5: Live '76 & '77'' (2001)

Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix

* '' New Worlds Fair'' (1975)

Robert Calvert

* ''

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'' (1975) * '' Hype: Songs of Tom Mahler'' (1981) * ''Revenge''

David Bowie

* '' Stage'' (1978) * '' Lodger'' (1979) * ''Sound + Vision'' (2001) * '' Welcome to the Blackout'' (recorded in 1978) (2018)

Japan

* '' Tin Drum'' (1981) * ''Gentlemen Take Polaroids/Tin Drum/Oil on Canvas'' (1994) * ''Exorcising Ghosts'' (2004)

David Sylvian

* '' Everything and Nothing'' (2000)

Thomas Dolby

* ''She Blinded Me With Science'' (1982) * ''The Golden Age of Wireless'' e-released version(1982) * ''The Best of Thomas Dolby: Retrospectacle'' (1994)

Mike Oldfield

* "Crises" (1983) 013 Deluxe Edition only* ''The Complete Mike Oldfield'' (1985)

Magic Muscle

* ''One Hundred Miles Below'' (1989) * ''Gulp'' (1991)

Nik Turner

* ''Prophets of Time'' (1994) * ''Transglobal Friends and Relations'' (2000) * ''Space Gypsy'' (2013) * ''Life In Space'' (2017)

Simon House

* ''Yassasim'' (1995) * ''Spiral Galaxy Revisited'' (2005)

Simon House with Rod Goodway

* ''House of Dreams'' (2002)

Spiral Realms

* ''A Trip to G9'' (1994) * ''Crystal Jungles of Eos'' (1995) * ''Solar Wind'' (1996) * ''Ambient Voids: A Hypnotic Compilation'' (1995)

Anubian Lights

* ''The Eternal Sky'' (1995) * ''Jackal & Nine'' (1996)

Ambient Time Travellers

* ''Ambient Time Travellers'' (1995)

Adrian Shaw

* ''Head Cleaner'' (2000)

Bedouin

* ''As Above So Below'' (2001)

Earth Lab

* ''Element'' (2006)

Judy Dyble

* ''Enchanted Garden'' (2004) * ''Spindle'' (2006) * ''The Whorl'' (2006)

Astralasia

* ''Cluster of Waves'' (2007) * ''Away With the Fairies'' (2007)

Spirits Burning

* ''Earthborn'' (2008) * ''Bloodlines'' (2009)

Nektar

* ''A Spoonful of Time'' (2008)

Alan Davey

* ''Eclectic Devils'' (2009)