May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
There isn’t much to it, really. A review of a Barras gig from Adam Sweeting, then a short one page interview about Sparkle In The Rain. On the back page was an ad for the Narara festival. There are two previously unseen (by me at least!) pics of Jim within the spread, which I scanned…
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I am a word lover – a lyrics lover. But I also love Simple Minds instrumentals…but I tend to love the dedicated instrumentals most…Kant Kino, Somebody Up There Likes You, Androgyny, Year Of The Dragon, Theme For Great Cities…Veldt! (although it does have some strange vocalisation on it…so I suppose Veldt is not STRICTLY an…
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I promised myself I would share a few more of these, so now is as good a time as any for this one!
Someone has isolated Jim’s vocals on Sparkle In The Rain…and wow! You can find them all on YT…but here’s Speed Your Love To Me…
I have never seen this picture (used for the article) before. What the hell is the boy doing? Lol. And…erm New Gold Dream was UNDERproduced?! Was it?!
Lol. OMG…New Gold Dream has only been out a year…and they were touring still in the first quarter of 1983. They’ve been gone SSOOOO LOOOONG! Lol. YOU HAVE NO IDEA – NO 1 MAGAZINE! Lol From an issue of No 1 Magazine from Sept 10th, 1983
It’s a cover, but I love it…and, well, if I am to make a piece for every track on every Simple Minds album…this must be included, for it is a track on Sparkle In The Rain. Probably should have not used these particular lines, either…but in the context of the song, they hold the most…
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Lyric of the day Song: East At Easter Album: Sparkle In The Rain Year of release: 1984 Written by: Simple Minds (album credits)
Lovely set of shots from Sparkle era gig. Had hold of these for so long…can’t remember any details of gig or who the photographer is. Apologies if you.