May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
It was 36 years since the release of Once Upon A Time yesterday. I find it an anniversary that usually passes me by without any fanfare. Unlike April for Life In A Day. Or November for Real To Real Cacophony. Or even my birthday for Big Music (seemingly deemed to be early November these days…
35 years ago today, this happened….
The first Simple Minds song I remember hearing was Promised You A Miracle. I clearly remember seeing the video on this Saturday morning music video program we had on in Oz called Sounds. And I remember loving that X-Ray scanning equipment in the video. The first Simple Minds song I really remember liking was Waterfront….
Lyric of the day Song: Ghostdancing Album: Once Upon A Time Year of release: 1985 Written by: Simple Minds (album credits) (Feeling the pressure to make them bloody good now! This one feels a bit hit and miss. They won’t ALL be like Hunter And The Hunted, I feel :-/)
thebizarremooneyeball: “Ghostdancing” live at Live Aid 1985 by Simple Minds One of the most bloody awesome performances of this song. Was its debut too! Very daring to put out an unreleased song like that during such a massive worldwide event like that. Love it! And at least they didn’t do an “Adam Ant”. At Wembley…
New #vinyl day #SimpleMinds
Part two of Simple Minds 7″ single hoard. Ooh, I do love that Kaleidoscope flexi-disc. It’s sssooo flimsy! Probably TOTALLY unplayable, but it looks wonderful! :-))
Time for song fourteen from the old Dream Setlist. This time it’s Ghostdancing. And because I want to hear it live, I chose a live version. This one is from Belguim in 2002. It segues into a cover of Gloria…which prompts Jim into asking a fantasically LOL question at around the 7min 38second mark. God…
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