The document is the July 2011 issue of BeatzTime music magazine, which includes an exclusive interview with singer SiMone explaining why she suddenly left the music industry to take time for herself in Thailand, along with reviews of upcoming albums, lists of summer movie recommendations and tips for living green, and a review of a new Simon & Garfunkle tribute band.

1. BeatzTime July 2011
Music Magazine Sizzling Summer Issue
Why She Left
SiMone
Her Reasons
Her Story
Reviews!!
Page 2
Collective Attitudes
Famous Enough
ReD
Fire Within
10 ways to LIVE
Go Green
On The Horizon
Page 6
this summer
£2.00
Page 8

2. W hilst her fans sat at home in di-
spair, and her artists wallowed in self-pity,
the youngest songwriter ever to win both
“H ow did you feel, suddenly get-
ting up and leaving your life behind like that?”
“I just needed some time for
myself - away from the city
a grammy and a brit music award in the
I asked. I wasn’t sure how to approach the
same year was strolling along the beaches of
question, as it was one we had all been won-
and all the lights, some place
Phuket, watching waves crashing upon the
dering.
sand. “A lot of people who I have met
where I could gather my
here ask me - ‘Why now?’ and then
thoughts”
“Before my life was so hectic. It’s I tell them, If you did what I do,
impossible for you’d know! the amount of stress
someone so young to be expected of I was under was increadible. Who-
so much. If there wasn’t a time when ever said working in the music buis-
I wasn’t ness would be easy clearly, had never
working, I was thinking about it, and worked in the music buisness!I just
if I wasn’t thinking about it, I was needed some time for
planning a meeting or myself - away from the city and all
“N
planning a lunch, a dinner, of the lights, some place where I
I
anything! I guess you could say I could gather my thoughts. Wow,
was always working, and now that I’m just how many times did I use the
word ‘I’? Makes me seem pretty
“A lot of people
thinking about it, it’s about time I
hired an selfish I know.”
assistant!”
ask me -
ot at all” I replied. I had to give
was fortunate enough to have simply run her credit. For such a young artist she was
‘Why now?’
into SiMone in a hotel lobby whilst I was working increadibly hard with artists all
attending a journalism confrence. If anyone
didn’t know who Giulia Simone was, they
over the world and in different languages,
and doing it all on her own. I guess all we
and then I tell
would just see a confident young woman tak- can hope for now is that she gets the time
ing a lesuirly holiday in Thailand, whilst back she needs to get herself together so she can them,
in L.A her fans and artists have been tearing produce even more ass-kicking songs and
their hair out wondering where she was and albums for us :) if you did what
when she was going to come back.
Billie Scott - Music Journalist,
“I announced it one Sunday during a BeatzTime Music Magazine I do, you’d
know!”
buisness lunch. It was with him (Mi-
cah - SiMone’s Agent). I remeber he

3. Contents Page Issue
102:July
2011
Page 2
SiMone -
Her Side of the Story,
with an exclusive
interview only in
BeatzTime magazine
Page 4
The Top 10 Films Page 8
2011’s Summer has to offer 10 tips on
Going Green this summer
Page 6
RevIewS - TeN LIve
we take a look at albums Crash
Harlem
scheduled for the next The Impossible Boys
half of the year- & More
Collective Attitudes
Famous enough?
ReD Page 14
A Fire within New!
On The Horizon Simon & Garfunkle Tribute band - what do we think?