Kim Simmonds, leader of Savoy Brown and a CNY resident, dies: Kim Simmonds, leader of the band Savoy Brown for 50-plus years and a Central New York resident for the past three decades, has died at the age of 75, the band announced. Savoy Brown, formed in London, toured around the world, including Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall. The Wales-born Simmonds moved to Oswego County in 1992. “Upstate New York gave me my new life,” he once said.