May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Yours truly! It was wonderful to be invited on to In Your Room to talk to Mick, Derek and Brian about my book: Simple Minds Song by Song and to also ask them questions about certain songs from the back catalogue. We had great fun. I really hope you enjoy watching.
In the early 1980s (as in 1980, 1981 and early into 1982) Simple Minds were accused of being “too Euro-centric” and of not putting enough of their focus into closer to home – what was happening in the UK, or even just in Glasgow itself. Why should there be criticism of such a thing? Why…
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I’m just going to show my dedication here…(and this has been while going through a period of not listening to you as much as I normally do! Just…bear that one in mind!)
A song that needs to be played loud –
There surely must be some kind of data anomaly because I really would have expected to see Wonderful In Young Life and This Earth That You Walk Upon in the top tracks…as well as Spirited Away being in the Top 100 playlist…but, hey, there you go.
Oh, it has just been in my head today. I so wish they would do this live…if ANYONE could play those drums like that, it is Cherisse Osei! Let her have a go at it, Jim! PLEASE?!
?? I was shouting out in my head “Boys From Brazil! IT’S BLOODY BOYS FROM BRAZIL!!!!” Sod’s law!
Your “cock blocking” has won out. The campaign has fizzled out and ground to a halt. If you were testing me to see how long I would persevere. This is your answer. This long. I just wanted a word back. Just a consideration. An acknowledgement you had taken my request on board and would consider…
Tried to take my time more with this Brazilian themed bird. It’s found in the tropics of South America appropriately enough, Brazil being one of the countries in which you can see it. This one is predominantly blue and yellow, but has some green too. Think I’m going to quickly run out of yellow/green/blue birds…