Rude Nude Boys
priptona-weird: And…one last shot of the bare chests…just because! I love this photo. Any excuse to get his nips out 😉
priptona-weird: And…one last shot of the bare chests…just because! I love this photo. Any excuse to get his nips out 😉
Simple Minds pin-up. Jackie magazine, 1982.
velmatv: Simple Minds – ‘Love Song’ – 1981 Lipsync live on ABC’s Countdown Ah, Jim’s yellow man-bag. If only he still had it :-(( (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
The boys all suited and booted, circa 1981. Love Jim’s slim tie 😉 From L to R: Charlie Burchill, Derek Forbes, Michael MacNeil, Jim Kerr.
As the new CD boxset (and other various formats of release) of Sparkle In The Rain is now imminent, I thought it apt to share a wonderful, positive gig review of the period (no date on the piece, but with the help of the Dream Giver Redux site, I’m guessing it was 2nd March, 1984).After…
So, this arrived today. Sssooo many lovely photos! Some I’ve not seen before… Here are some examples…
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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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….
