May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Lyric of the day Song: King Is White And In The Crowd Album: New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) Year of release: 1982 Written by: Simple Minds (album credits) So deeply dark and political. Love it! (To make this pic work, I had to put a top on Jim. Lol. Like I would want to for real!…
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Lyric of the day Song: Hunter And The Hunted Album: New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) Year of release: 1982 Written by: Simple Minds (album credits)
I posted this on the Simple Minds Facebook visitor wall today (with the picture of the koala)… THE POWER OF NEW GOLD DREAM: I have just spent the past 5 days in Adelaide (and surrounding Adelaide Hills). My first ever visit. I was meeting and subsequently staying with a lovely lady I have been, firstly,…
Jim Kerr is like manna from heaven (but what do I know?)… 😉 (Hark at me and my cheeky SM song lyric puns!)
Michael MacNeil’s spider fingers on the keyboard hook of New Gold Dream. Thank you for the music, Mick, and your magic spider fingers!
This will always have THIS attached to it now…
‘New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) German 12″ Remix’ by Simple Minds Now nearly one year into my Simple Minds fandom, I’ve harboured a new love for New Gold Dream, esp. this German 12″ Remix. I posted a comment (massive blurb) about it on the SM Facebook page about my favourite fragment of the song and I…
Wow! So I wake up to see this response about my favourite bit of New Gold Dream this morning… Stunned :-))
Simple Minds performing (well, lip syncing to) New Gold Dream on Italian music program “Disco Ring” (yeah, I know!) in 1982. The footage is in crap condition…oh but Jim is beautiful. That same suit he’s wearing on The Tube and topless underneath the jacket. Thata bhoy! 😉
OMG! That version of New Gold Dream at Barrowlands on 5/1/1985 with Bono as guest vocals (if you can call it that), makes me want to throw things at my CD player!! It’s a shout-fest and sssooo fucking awful. I’m sorry. I really don’t know how ANYONE can like it. If I’d had been at…