May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I had been looking at anniversaries of release dates and although we are now in July and I could have easily chosen the quite obvious C Moon Cry Like A Baby as we have only just passed the “outside it’s hot, the first of July” significance (hinted at in last week’s post on the Roskilde…
Today marks the 28th anniversary of the release of Hypnotised, the second single from the Good News From The Next World album. I always felt it was a stronger single than She’s A River. Thus continuing the tradition that, although not universally true (but a fairly constant), the second Simple Minds single from a new…
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The song was written at the beginning of 1981 in Edinburgh after a conversation between Jim and John Leckie in which Leckie thought Jim should try his hand at writing a more “traditional” love song. Kerr’s is anything but traditional. In fact, I am firmly of the belief that it is anything BUT a love…
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Just a few days ago, it was the 1st anniversary of the video release of Magic. As much as I love the video, I prefer the album version of the song. So here we are. Here’s to one year of Magic! ??