May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
The dancefloor. Frigging hell! Did Simple Minds know how to fill it back in the day. I guess they still do to be fair. But let us rewind back to 1979. Rockfield Studios in the Welsh countryside. Five young men from Glasgow are in the studio making the followup to their debut album. An album…
I’m always flicking through the pages of the music mags. Not much really has me stopping for too long. (Perhaps to my detriment? A slow reader’s curse that to be drawn in to read something, you REALLY have to grab their attention – going by my own experience anyway.) I suppose I am finding myself…
A very refined and tasteful photo of Mr Osterberg Jr from back in the day…
In part two of my conversation with Bruce, we discuss more on Life In A Day – namely the infamous Drury Lane gig as well as talk on the release of Chelsea Girl and the making of the video. We also discuss Real To Real Cacophony more in depth – from Arista’s dismay of its…
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Happy Anniversary Lust For Life! Iggy’s album released 40 years ago today…and just by a stroke of coincedence, I found myself listening to it this morning.
A fabulous synth intro from Mick, then a fabulous classic rock riff from Charlie. And then….like the crashing elevator within the chorus, in comes Jim with such stilted and stark lyrics…getting straight to the point of it! It’s bleak. It’s dystopia! Industrial. Gritty. In a pea-soup fog. It’s a Lowry painting. It’s Fritz Lang’s Metropolis….
A new reissue of coloured vinyl albums of Iggy Pop’s The Idiot, Lust For Life and TV Eye Live with a limited edition tote bag coming with a bundle of all three LPs! I…WANT….THIS!!! Full details here
Happy 70th Birthday to the music world’s other most awesome Jim! View this post on Instagram A post shared by BiggyPop (@biggypop) And I haven’t heard Some Weird Sin for AGES!
Earworm of the day!