May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
And the most astonishing places you find them in. If you go to my University & Unicorns blog (direct link to the post can be clicked to HERE) you can read all about exactly where I found this treasure trove of old music magazines and the potential wealth of Simple Minds content to be unearthed…
In the early 1980s (as in 1980, 1981 and early into 1982) Simple Minds were accused of being “too Euro-centric” and of not putting enough of their focus into closer to home – what was happening in the UK, or even just in Glasgow itself. Why should there be criticism of such a thing? Why…
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Here is a selection of the things that were on the Oz TV SM DVD that arrived the other day. I put them up on YouTube to save space on my blog. Here goes… And the interview from yesterday – minus the bit of Prince Charles I snuck into it yesterday.
Full interview and pics. ?
And I have not read or scanned this one either! I just wanted the cover (despite the frankly – even for then – crappy reference to Savile). FOREVER in your debt, Virginia Turbett. This is BY FAR your best work. Taking the picture of him standing in front of the mirror was GENIUS! I bow…
I have GOT to scan this properly too! The cover is AWESOME. I need to frame it. Jim looks like he’s in a Roy Lichtenstein piece because of the ink dotting on the cover. Oh…but inside is this! An alternative “tousled hair” picture. All the work of the wonderful Virginia Turbett. I would buy EVERY…
A gig review from June, 1979. 4th paragraph in – OUCH!! But *kinda* constructive. If a review can be both bitchingly scathing yet constructive?! I’m not sure you could quite accuse them of “no stage presence” – I found Jim mesmerising from the outset. And obviously he (the reviewer) was not sold by epics like…
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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Interview with Jim Kerr, printed in Sounds, 3 December 1983.