priptona-weird: And the world goes hot,And the cities take,And the beat goes crashing,All along the way. New Gold Dream (81, 82, 83, 84) – Simple Minds He’s beautiful…will never, ever stop being in awe of him :-))
Month: May 2015
Members of Simple Minds before SM – as part of Johnny And The Self Abusers. Charlie Burchill with his arms folded back-left. Jim Kerr next to him, second in from left at the back, and Brian McGee, bottom-right. My beautiful baby bhoys! Jim looks so goddamn cute (if a little “vacant” – but I assume…
The Lostboy! album has wonderful artwork inside the gatefold. That’s Jim understanding the aesthetics that vinyl records can give. It’s not just an aural experience, but a visual one as well.
viola1252: foreverblog-world: David Bowie theme cafe: Ginza, Tokyo wonderful I *have* to go to this place!!
#vinyl day – playing new acquisition :-)) #JimKerr
glamidols: Marc Bolan
nine4eight: Andy Warhol Polaroid of David Bowie, 1971.
theunderestimator: movies-across-time-and-space: Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo | 1981 | Uli Edel | West Germany An utterly bleak and desperate movie. Set in 1970s West Berlin and based on a true story, Christiane F. is also an indisputable and relatively unknown masterpiece. David Bowie’s Berlin period soundtrack incredibly fits the movie’s depressive…
OMG! That version of New Gold Dream at Barrowlands on 5/1/1985 with Bono as guest vocals (if you can call it that), makes me want to throw things at my CD player!! It’s a shout-fest and sssooo fucking awful. I’m sorry. I really don’t know how ANYONE can like it. If I’d had been at…
iamtheanchoress: Performing with Simple Minds at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas.