May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
This weekend sees the anniversary of the release of Bilndfolded as video on YouTube (uploaded to YT 4 September 2014). Seemingly it is not recognised as being a single release. Wikipedia deems Honest Town as the lead single release for the Big Music album – but the first new music I heard from SM when…
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Differing tastes. Songs that you don’t initially warm to and songs you love from the get go. This is the theme for MMM this week. I was pondering what I was going to write about this week – thinking that I more often than not choose earlier tracks. It’s my bias coming to the fore…
I had never read (or even SEEN) this interview before. I’m sure he must have shared it on SMO at the time…but I was so early into my mega fandom, I no doubt overlooked it. Too busy absorbing the music and many other things about the Simple Minds world. Watching tons of early footage…as much…
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Lyric of the day Song: Spirited Away Album: Big Music Year of release: 2014 Written by: Parker/Kerr/Burchill When they toured last year and performed the song, the last four lines would be left out. I love those lines!!! They are my favourites in the whole song :-((( Oh, well. The song is still beautiful, anyway…
Lyric of the day Song: Liaison Album: Big Music (deluxe edition) Year of release: 2014 Written by: Kerr/Burchill
Lyric of the day Song: Kill Or Cure Album: Big Music Year of release: 2014 Written by: Paul Stratham, Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill
Jim’s giving it the “RAWK!” sign there 😉
Lovely photo of Jim and Charlie 🙂 #SimpleMinds
Aaww! They are so sweet! Jim and Charlie – BFFs
priptona-weird: Gorgeous shot of Jim found on Instagram. And still so beautiful today…