May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I, just a few days ago, bought a bunch of clippings on eBay. Some things within I already had copies of (the whole NME December 4th, 1982 edition with Jim on the cover, taken by Anton Corbijn, for example). There are actually a number of good things…gig reviews, album and single reviews…some Belgian magazine articles,…
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The photoshoot of Jim in…France, I think it is, in March 1982 is just stunning. All those years of wondering what happened to Virginia Turbett for it to be SHE that finds ME..I now wonder what happened to Janette Beckman. To my knowledge this photoset is the only one I know of that she took…
Perusing old copies of Smash Hits…Jim is being questioned on whether he is INDEED 22 in the early months of 1982. Doesn’t help when your musical doppelganger (one Billy Currie) has already hit 30. Well, he was still 22 at the time this went to print (and certainly at the time the photo was taken…in…
Not just me then? Still, it was 36 years ago. It seems a very highly personal thing he shared for the time…well, at ANY time.
FINALLY got an A3 scanner so now I could share the article in all its glory! I hope I scanned it in an optimal reading condition. Please let me know otherwise.
With the news of the demise of the NME in print form, it is time once again to share the BEST cover the NME ever had in all its years of print… So much so, a copy of it is on the wardrobe doors.
Not as in the Aussie greeting, but as in “Gee Day”…the day for me to travel up to Glasgow once again. I set out in a few hours and arrive at Glasgow Central station at 5.01pm. First port of call will be the Jury’s Inn on Jamaica Street…then a quick call to the HMV in…
Something different for this week. Radio sessions in 1982. The first two songs…Promised You A Miracle and In Trance As Mission were recorded in February and during the week, but the latter three songs: Someone Somewhere In Summertime, Glittering Prize and Hunter And The Hunted – were recorded on August 13th…a Friday. Any gig or…
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The Jimbo Crimbo celebrations continue at Casa Read with…ESSENTIAL viewing 😉
Derek, that is… Around the time I called him a bog… Yeah…that maybe wasn’t a nice thing to do. Oops. ???