May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
And I have not read or scanned this one either! I just wanted the cover (despite the frankly – even for then – crappy reference to Savile). FOREVER in your debt, Virginia Turbett. This is BY FAR your best work. Taking the picture of him standing in front of the mirror was GENIUS! I bow…
High praise for Empires And Dance – as there bloody SHOULD be! And of I Travel too! “Go to a pub, club or disco and try standing still to their ‘I Travel’ single. You can’t. It’s enough to shame Donna Summer into retirement.” WOW! What about THAT, Sir Kerr?! Love the words about Veldt too…from…
I have GOT to scan this properly too! The cover is AWESOME. I need to frame it. Jim looks like he’s in a Roy Lichtenstein piece because of the ink dotting on the cover. Oh…but inside is this! An alternative “tousled hair” picture. All the work of the wonderful Virginia Turbett. I would buy EVERY…
I bought this on 12″ vinyl today. In all the horror of the world right now, I need my happy song. I had not heard this version until today when I saw a copy of this being sold on a “certain online auction site”.
This week, I think I win on the BEST lyric art. Such bravado…BUT LOOK! And Sir liked it too!
New Gold Dream soon to feature on BBC Six Music as “Classic Album of the Day”. Read more by clicking here…
The ever expanding Kerr shrine…
Sir Kerr – Harbourside in Oz, 1989. Pics from Sounds magazine, Dec, 1989. And one can never have too many boots! Winklepickers were the mode of the period, it would seem?
New acquisition today 🙂 Canadian white vinyl 12″ of Up On The Catwalk. Nice!
This one is ALL in the font. I used the imagery before for one I made for Citizen (Dance Of Youth). But it *IS* Simple Minds on the Old Grey Whistle Test doing Chelsea Girl, so, why not use it for that? Being able to wrap the font around Jim like that to emphasise the…