John Mayer | Life In Music | Oxford Union

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John Mayer talks openly about his past rejections, his duet with girlfriend Katy Perry and his pivotal move to Montana.

John Mayer begins by talking about his time at Berkeley Music College where he studied for a year and discovered how his peers visualized success and through that discovery he found what he wanted to achieve in the world of music.

After Withdrawing from Berkeley, he moved to Atlanta where he describes the gradual progression of his music career as every month being better than the last for at least 5 years. Within 3 years he went from selling out a 180 seater venue to getting a record deal, playing to 8000 people a night and winning his first Grammy award. He says it’s incredibly hard to realise how amazing his life had become because the journey was so gradual.

In today’s society it’s very hard to have a hit song…

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The Stories Antiques Tell

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Why do song lyrics touch so many hearts? Why do poems speak to our core about an array of emotions? Why are some movies or books so profound to so many?

It is because as human beings we have far more in common than we care to admit. No matter our culture, race, affluence or lack of – we all know what pain feels like, what joy feels like. We have all been loved, we have all been rejected. We have all felt the sting of unfair circumstance or the surreal giddiness of magical serendipity.

We are more one than many on this human path, one we trod together – shoulder to shoulder or connected by some mysterious commonality through the centuries.

This universality of the human experience is one of the reasons I feel so drawn to antiques and why I prefer to be surrounded by the remnants of…

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The Media Mastermind turned Boho Photographer Joe Simpson

Joe Simpson is now a photographer based in Malibu. His career has been epic and a tad rebellious ergo Bohemian from his early days as a Baptist Youth Minister, to managing his superstar daughters Jessica and Ashlee Simpson plus his genius plan to give both daughters reality TV shows that catapulted their careers from music into most notably the eldest daughter’s billion dollar fashion line: The Jessica Simpson Collection. He has always been streets head of other music managers as seen by his initiative to produce reality TV shows for his musical daughters and his recent foray into fine art photography. This man may be behind the scenes but his vision is often waaaaay ahead of time.

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Simpson is a creative pioneer in his own right whether exploiting emerging new markets such as reality television to producing music or editorial fashion photography Simpson serves the edgy trends ahead of time. I find him inspiring and respect him a lot, truth be told there’s not a whole lot of media/interviews on him. I wish I could learn more about him, about what drives him and influences his creative and executive decisions in his own and offspring’s careers. I think he’s a phenomenal talent with a discerning eye in the music industry and visual arts.

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Sadly we don’t get to hear more about his vision as things tend to stray toward the superstar sisters he has raised and managed.

Joe Simpson is Bohemian worthy for his life-long career in the arts and music scene plus he has a forward-thinking ideas in arts and pop culture.

www.JoeSimpsonPhotography.com

instagram: @JoeSimpsonPhoto