May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Some very sad news from Camp SM to report this morning. John Giblin has passed away. Reports were coming in last night from a couple of sources of his passing, and like others, I held off relaying the news until confirmation of the news was compounded. This appears to have happened overnight. A different touch…
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…
It’s the Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend in the UK. This involves participants observing their garden – or a local patch of nature – for an hour and recording all the different species (and highest number of each in one gathering) of birds in one hour. I will probably take part but I know already…
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35 years ago today, this happened….
Well, for me anyways. Quite a number of photos I hadn’t seen before in the pages of this little booklet. I’m sharing most of the previously unseen (by me) photos within. A few of them have been around before but I just liked scanning them and having a perhaps better copy than I previously did….
Part two of the scans of the Once Upon A Time box set booklet.
In an exercise in injecting some life into this blog, I thought I would share a scan of the booklet that s inside the Once Upon A Time box set. It’ll be broken up into two parts. Here’s part one.
Classic Pop magazine feature of Simple Minds’ Once Upon A Time album, newly re-issued as a super deluxe box set package.
Close up scan of the band members from the Simple Minds biography booklet. In order – Jim Kerr, Mel Gaynor, John Giblin, Charlie Burchill and Mick MacNeil.
Simple Minds News – Issue 22, 1988: Part Two For interested Minds fans. Kept the “contact” pages in, but obscured anything too revealing about peoples’ addresses. Thought it might be fun for people to see themselves mentioned. I recognise a few names in the SM fandom today 🙂