He Is The … Glittering Prize
What was I saying yesterday? Lol THERE IS NO HOPE FOR ME! Oh, look at him! Just LOOK AT HIM! Why do you have to be so goddamn fucking beautiful?! *cries into hands* https://youtu.be/iI67rgJ0wWI
Tag: 1982
Before Lostboy! There Was “Special School” Boy! Lol (Pro Synth Network with Mick MacNeil)
I need to explain this post header. Lol “The Man in the Sky”, Mick MacNeil, was being interviewed….well, more joined in in a live stream chat (with a loose interview in there) for this YouTube channel called the Pro Synth Network. Basically a weekly synth geek’s get together to discuss all things Synth and keyboard…
Sons And Fascination – From San Francisco
Recorded by SM’s sound tech (of then), Frank Gallagher, in San Francisco. The boys sound really on the mark here. I love this song. It’s probably my fave album title track of theirs along with New Gold Dream and Walk Between Worlds (honourable mention to Graffiti Soul as well). Anyway, I love that ad lib…
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Simple Minds – A Gift From Heaven – Record Mirror 1982 (May/June?)
Not exactly sure of the date. It just came to me as a clipping. I got it because of that Shelia Rock photo of Jim. God, that is such a wonderful photoshoot. There are some beautiful images of Jim in that white outfit – the jaiket and the “jodpurs” as he called them once. I…
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Run Back To Yesterday
Today Billy Sloan on his show page for BBC Radio Scotland was asking which gig that you’ve been to in the past would you want to go back and experience again. Not sure I would want to go to any specific ones, really. Probably just any Simple Minds one. But…oh, the chance to see them…
Oh, My Born Days! Happy Birthday Kerrsday Thursday!
www.sheilarock.com/images/1050.jpg All my Christmases have just come at once. LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL BARE-CHESTED CREATURE!! Mr Kerr, you leave me in a puddle. Thank you! And thank you, Sheila Rock! BE STILL MY BEATING OVARIES! ????????????
Happy Canada Day
? Tom Sheehan Inside Melody Maker magazine – November 27th, 1982.
Aussie Ogling…
This arrived in the post today…of particular interest for this Aussie SM fan. I need to cast my professional ogling eye over it and see what’s what. Some things I have seen before, others not. I am hoping for a surprise or two. We’ll see. I hope there’ll be something good to share. It’s Kerrsday…
The Final Flick-through
The final look through my hoard of Virginia Turbett prints. UPDATE: I’m now speaking from the future! It’s September, 2023 and I am painstakingly updating this blog. Deleting BIG video files but uploading them to YouTube before deletion. So, now that means this post has one big original video, which I have just uploaded to…
Kerrsday Photo Change – Kensington Gardens/Peter Pan Statue Set
A change of display in the snap frames for Kerrsday.