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? Tom Sheehan Inside Melody Maker magazine – November 27th, 1982.
Category: simple minds
Something Is Missing…
Had to be done today… “Outside it’s hot – the first of July”
Minds Music Monday – All Tomorrow’s Parties – Greatest Ever Cover?
The more I listen to it, the more I think it might just be. If not, then a very close second to Street Hassle. So…what is it about Simple Minds covering Lou Reed songs that makes them so wonderful? Jim’s worship of Lou? Does it give an extra sense of “duty”? Does he just…care more?…
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A Change Of…Terms?
Where do I start? Well, I start by saying – the blog ends up being my safe place for a moan…a gripe…a whinge. Mostly because I know Jim doesn’t want to hear it. I appreciate that. Well, I kind of expressed, briefly, in the comments about the use of the phrase “longterm” – like how…
The Longterm?
How does one define how ‘long’ the longterm is? I ponder because in Jim’s post today he talks about the “Book Of Brilliant Things” or whatever it’s going to end up being called. The fan-based SM compendium. “….we are looking to create something to which all longterm Simple Minds fans will hopefully want to contribute…
Jim Kerr – In His Own Words – Record Mirror 1985
We’ve always had an Art School tag…I don’t even think there is an art school in Glasgow. Jim Kerr, 1984 on Simple Minds I do NOT believe for a single second he’d have said that! I mean, geez, the Glasgow School of Art is one of the city’s most famous buildings! They even played there…
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Never Too Much ‘Guyliner’!
I shared this photo (just a quick snap of it when it arrived by post on my camera, rather than the proper scanned image that I’m sharing here) on FB when it arrived just to share the sheer beauty of this man and show some of the collecting hoard I had got myself. A friend…
Strange Days … Indeed!
And, well…just in case Sir disnae see it on the SM visitor wall (as it now behaves rather oddly these days and can’t be viewed via the FB app – at least I can’t view it – maybe I have been blocked from it? Dunno!) Anyways, I did post this to the SM FB wall…
Vicarious Talk
The dream of conversation with Jim.
Dan’s My Man! Wonderful In Young Life – Live At Last.
This amazing young man, Dan Crouch, has been sharing some piano solo covers of Simple Minds songs on the SM Official Group page. He had done fabulous covers of Hunter And The Hunted and most recently The American. And because he had covered The American it had me thinking that maybe he would be willing…
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