Cowell signed up a number of acts to
S-Records including [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_Killed_the_Cat"]Curiosity Killed the Cat[/ame], [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Evans"]Sonia Evans[/ame], [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5ive"]Five[/ame], [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westlife"]Westlife[/ame],
Robson & Jerome, and [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Kaos"]Ultimate Kaos[/ame]. He also released several [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_song"]novelty recordings[/ame] featuring the likes of wrestlers of the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wrestling_Entertainment"]World Wrestling Federation[/ame], [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletubbies"]Teletubbies[/ame],
[10] Zig and Zag and the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty_Morphin_Power_Rangers"]Mighty Morphin Power Rangers[/ame], that were huge successes.
[3] Cowell set up another label, [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syco_Records"]Syco Records[/ame], in 2002 which later became part of [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Records"]Columbia Records[/ame] and [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_Music_Entertainment"]Sony BMG Music Entertainment[/ame]. Artists such as [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Lewis"]Leona Lewis[/ame], [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Divo"]Il Divo[/ame] and contestants from
The X Factor and
America's Got Talent are released on Syco. He has a lot to answer for, in my opinion, it's hard to know where to begin with that lot.
You like Simon Cowell?
I know the entire thing is rigorously scripted and he likes to portray himself as the controversial straight-talking, tell-it-like-it-is, anti-hero but, all things considered, he would comfortably top a list of '10 people you'd like to hit repeatedly with a spade'.
And that's without taking into account the multiple crimes against music that high-trousered fool has unleashed on the world.