And…Finally – Jim Kerr Interview – Roadrunner Magazine, January, 1983
I don’t think this interview could start with a more delicious mental image…
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Another Roadrunner Gem – Action Mode Kerr
Jim…snapped while performing during SM’s tour of Oz in 1981. Photo by Eric Algra
Another Snippet From Roadrunner – Dec ‘81/Jan ‘82
J’acuse Jim? (Is it just me that seems to take that as the implication?) Also…I have NEVER seen this pic before…and every picture this magazine has used so far (apart from the one with him and Iva taken by Derek…and one other previously unseen pic I’ll share later today, from another edition of the mag)…
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Classic Pop Subscription!
Email confirmation of my subscription to Classic Pop…at last! And just in the nick of time…my first issue will be February, 2018…with inside (hopefully!), a big old Simple Minds Walk Between Worlds feature. I do hope so! Cannot wait!
Thank You, Cologne…
The Jimbo Crimbo celebrations continue at Casa Read with…ESSENTIAL viewing 😉
Minds Music (Christmas) Monday
The most venomous version of King Is White I’d ever heard Jim sing…not as angry sounding in his delivery as some of the earlier versions and he drops the “take/taking no prisoners” line – which is a big shame…but in the second refrain of the chorus he adds a “hang ’em up / sling ’em…
Merry Christmas From Priptona
Although this is essentially a blog from a personal angle, and not meant to be seen as a professionally run Simple Minds blog…by ANY means, I am humbled and somewhat dumbstruck that I have a readership and visitors to this site. To those who subscribe, and to those who visit, I wish you all a…
UNEARTHED JOY!
I LITERALLY WANT TO CRY! I CANNOT BELIEVE I FOUND THIS AFTER ALL THIS TIME! AND…I COULD HAVE HAD A COPY. FUCK YOU RARE RECORDS FOR GETTING MY COPY LOST IN THE POST (SUPPOSEDLY!) AND THAT PHOTO IN THE SPREAD IS SSOOOOOO A VIRGINIA TURBETT…I WILL PUT MY HOUSE ON IT (I am sssssoooooo asking…
Dream A, Dream A: What To Ask Santa For This Year?
Well…last Christmas it was the dream of being hugged by Jim on the Renfrew ferry in 1983 that became manifest and real at Bridlington in May. So…what do I possibly ask Santa for THIS year? More of the same? Geez, I wouldn’t say no! Perhaps MUCH more of the same? As in…more time with him…?…
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Lyrics Mixed With The Poison Of Real Life…
I was trying to find this interview yesterday…just, because it had been quite a while since I viewed it, and it rarely comes up. Oh…but…wow…how timely the subject matter with which The Boy speaks! Hmmmm. This one would have the dissenters raving, methinks…. That end bit? Oh, you black-hearted boy. Lol. Fuck that “happily ever…
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