Jim The Binman?
Jim – the bin man! What a waste that would have been?! Though…there would have been one sexy old “garbo” collecting bins around the streets of Glasgow! 😉 – From “Simple Minds – A Visual Documentary”
Jim – the bin man! What a waste that would have been?! Though…there would have been one sexy old “garbo” collecting bins around the streets of Glasgow! 😉 – From “Simple Minds – A Visual Documentary”
Article on Jim Kerr in the Midlands Express and Star “Weekend” newspaper supplement.
So, this arrived today. Sssooo many lovely photos! Some I’ve not seen before… Here are some examples…
A set of 12 gifs that I made from Simple Minds’ appearance on The Tube in November 1982. Eleven are of various bits of Jim and one is of Mel Gaynor. Click to view all…
wordsworthinc: Spin has an oral history of the creation of Don’t You (Forget About Me) that you will likely find very interesting, as it also has the full demo that Keith Forsey, one of the writers, sang. What is interesting about the piece, if you don’t know the history of the song, is that Simple…
Love the composition of this magazine cover – Jim’s butt in the mirror – rarrr raarrrr!!! The caption of the photo isn’t a good one (esp. given the reference of it – a show disgraced paedophile DJ/Presenter Jimmy Savile hosted called “Jim’ll Fix It”)…but there you go. That’s history for you. Another photo by Virginia…
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“You can take the boy out of Glasgow” – Jim Kerr on one of the many reasons why Berlin is a city he likes.
Time for song seven on the old “Simple Minds: my dream setlist”. One of the most beautiful, haunting songs they’ve ever done – Seeing Out The Angel (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Oh, dear lord, Jim! Someone got his bedroom curtains made into a jacket :-/
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…
