We prove that open and densely in AC D (M, SL(d, R)), in appropriate topologies, the pair (f, A) has simple spectrum with respect to the unique maximal entropy measure µ f . Then, we prove prevalence of trivial spectrum near the dynamical cocycle of an area-preserving map and also for generic cocycles in Aut Leb (M ) × L p (M, SL(d, R)).