Don’t Like These Boys – Toy Soldier Boys
Love forever!! This song is (I know I’m overusing this word…but) AWESOME! #NowPlaying “Twist/Run/Repulsion” by Simple Minds from X5
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Bootleg Beauty!
Listening to another live gig tonight. Sounding like a good one so far. Look at that date! What a Christmas present!!!
Fanzine Memorabilia – Late 1980s
Been pulling the reins in on the spending on SM memorabilia, but when I saw this little bundle on eBay last week – I had to have a bid! Picked them up for a bargain! (£3.79). Some nice photos too – and a colour cover on one! Lots of photos are inky dot-matrix prints, but…
Molly Meldrum Declares Glittering Prize Will Be Number One
Molly Meldrum’s prediction for Glittering Prize as it enters the Australian chart. Sadly – and rather disappointingly – it only reached Number Nine. But, hey, that’s a Top 10 hit! I’m sure the guys were happy to take it 🙂 Though he kind of got it right in the end, as the “Best of…” that was…
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Derek Circa 1981 Is My Hair “Sister”!
I’m not kidding you – look – we’re bloody hair “sisters”! Lol (apart from colour now, of course)
Simple Minds on Hear Here – Scotland 1980
Absolutely everything I love about early Simple Minds all here in one little dynamic live set. They were just ‘ON’ from the get go! Amazing young musicians in Derek Forbes, Mick MacNeil and Brian McGee – not forgetting two stalwarts of Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr – what a frontman he is! Yes, biased, I…
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Smash Hits Reviews of Sparkle in the Rain and singles – 1983/84
Sparkle In The Rain era reviews in Smash Hits magazine through 1984. Waterfront achieved the high praise of “single of the fortnight”. Ooh!!
Photoset from Werchter Festival 1983 – Part 1
Colour photoset of Simple Minds performing at Werchter Festival in 1983.
The Tavistock Terrors
Fun in the park with the autumn leaves. Photos taken at Tavistock Square in London by the Gandhi statue. Think they date from 1980. That last photo of Jim is absolutely beautiful! Well, Jim is beautiful. Any photos of him with tousled hair just makes me melt! *sigh*
Speed Your Love To Me lyrics and band photos – Smash Hits magazine – Jan-Feb 1984
Speed Your Love To Me lyrics printed in Smash Hits magazine, Jan-Feb, 1984.