May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I think I am going to find this a hard thing to do! So I think I’ll get the easier stuff out the way first. Thinking about all of the arts and culture there are things that I don’t partake in much, if at all. I don’t watch television, so it’s going to be hard…
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Next Thursday sees the 44th anniversary of the release of ‘The American’ as the first single produced by Simple Minds under then new record label, Virgin Records. Coincidentally, it’s the eve of the start of the U.S. leg of the band’s continuing Global Tour – which for this part of the tour appears to be…
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New Gold Dream era Smash Hits reviews. Singles: Promised You A Miracle (reviewed by Neil Tennant, no less!) and Someone Somewhere (In Summertime) reviewed, plus Album: New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) reviewed by David Hepworth, receiving 8/10.
Been playing all these babies tonight! From left to right – top row: Glittering Prize, Speed Your Love To Me, Don’t You (Forget About Me), Sanctify Yourself (double 7″ gatefold. One single plays at 45 – the other at 33!). Left to right – middle row: Sweat In Bullet (double 7″ gatefold), Life In A…
Part four (final part…not sharing photos of ALL the singles!) of my Simple Minds 7″ single hoard. I sssooo want to make a clock out of the Kick It In cover. Lol.
Part three of Simple Minds 7″ singles hoard. A lovely limited edition, numbered copy of Stand By Love, with lovely poster (Jim is bloody hawt!!) that is ssssooo going up on the wall WHEN I GET FRAMES!! (if ever I get any frames!)
Part two of Simple Minds 7″ single hoard. Ooh, I do love that Kaleidoscope flexi-disc. It’s sssooo flimsy! Probably TOTALLY unplayable, but it looks wonderful! :-))
Haven’t really shared many photos of my SM hoard of goodies I picked up last week. Here is part one of the 7″ single swag – 41 of them in all! Some are copies of the same single, but sourced from a diff. country or have some other kind of desirable/rarity attached to them, so…
#SimpleMinds #vinyl hoard from yesterday’s eBay auction collection. 12" singles, albums and a couple of 10" singles too 🙂