Career
He managed acts such as Snow Patrol, The Verve, Scissor Sisters and Klaxons. With Simon Napier-Bell, he co-managed Wham! and is credited with having enabed them to break into the United States market in 1985 and to go onto befome the first western popular group to tour China. Summers was sent to Gordon Boys (a military school in Woking) at the age of 12 and enlisted in the army at the age of 15.
He served as a radiographer in Hong Kong and Malaysia.
In 1986, he and Tim Parry founded Big Life, a music management company. The two men also operated Big Life Records.
Among his other music-related interests was his role as chairman of the Music Managers Forum. Summers died on the night of 14 August 2015 after suffering from lung cancer for two years.
After his death, tributes were made on Twitter by Tim Burgess, The Futureheads, Boy George and Zane Lowe.
