May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I don’t know why…but after a while…it just becomes therapy. There’s a compulsion. It relaxes me. I hadn’t played with this one for a while. It’s the eyes. The eyes draw me in. By God, he is devastatingly gorgeous. I need to find out who the photographer of this photo is too. How can someone…
…likes you very, very much 🙂 (I wonder where he got that picture?…)
Repeat After Me Jim…
That opening percussive beat. Such a a hook! A drum machine, I’m assuming? A “motorik” beat. Some hear elements of Kraftwerk’s Autobahn within it…but I hear more of Neu’s Wave Mother and La Dusseldorf’s Rheinita. Because I find elements of their music more…emotional. Kraftwerk certainly have an emotional element to their music they never get…
Got my hands on a copy of Classic Pop magazine, at last. Sarah with an accordion? Can she play? ! I’m still waiting for Jim’s debut solo glockenspiel tour. Lol.
Such a wonderfully written piece by Sir today. I still have that envious feeling! Like I did when I read the Bowie biography I read years back. Through the hectic MainMan years…and, oh, to have been Coco Schwab! What an amazing life she’s had, being by his side. Of course, the bit that tugs at…
The very definition of the word… Did you see what I did there? Lol. Of course there was a different picture on Wikipedia…but, I just had to be cheeky and change it. Thank you, Anton Corbijn, for one of the most beautiful photos of Jim ever to exist. Along with the photo credit on the…
Just…because I do show a little bias by forever working on the young Jim…
I haven’t written one of these in SUCH a long time, but here goes… I have probably been aware of this track since at least 1984, if not since its release in 1982. It has been a long favourite. That unmistakable guitar riff of Charlie’s, and those amazingly picturesque and romantic lyrics of Jim’s, combined…
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I’ll win Jim round to this album if it’s the last thing I do! :-))