May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Ouch!! Wow! What a scathing gig review. Tommy Udo obviously knows *nothing* about what fantastic music is! How he ever got to be a music journalist escapes me! Still, he does admit to being in a minority of one because – as he puts it – “the audience went apeshit throughout the set”. Damn right…
I love the pictures from this photoshoot. Not many of them out on the ‘net are very clear – and in some of them Jim looks very dour (not that I’m complaining – Jim is *hawt* when he’s moody!) – but this period around 1982, I think he is just the most beautiful man on…
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The young boys – Jim Kerr, Derek Forbes, Charlie Burchill, Michael MacNeil, Mike Ogletree.
Gig review of the Tour Du Monde (Sparkle In The Rain) from Dec 1983.
Jim and Charlie’s choices for Q Magazine’s “The Album That Changed My Life” feature in April’s (current) issue.
Review of the Sparkle In The Rain boxset in this month’s (labelled April 2015) Q Magazine. The picture caption says (Simple Minds in 1984) – nope, 1982 that picture was taken. I have it from a magazine clipping dated Dec 1982. Not strictly true that SITR was the first album Mel Gaynor recorded with them….
The baby bhoys 🙂 circa 1979 L to R: Michael MacNeil, Derek Forbes, Charlie Burchill, Brian McGee, Jim Kerr.
He is just too adorable for words – Jim Kerr (Oh, and Charlie Burchill behind him)
Oh, dear! NAUGHTY BOYS! Charlie loves Asian “food”! *makes quotation marks with fingers* RUDE!!! Lol. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
My lovely, lovely boys on my lovely, lovely poster :-)) #SimpleMinds #JimKerr #CharlieBurchill