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”.
Yeah, he’s pretty ordinary. And I’m NEVER gonna be able to do birds legs to save my life…but there you go :-/
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…
Chrissy, giving my “Jim bag” a smooch :-))
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?