May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Muriel Gray interviews Jim “let me be your daddy” Kerr – the end to this interview shouldn’t have piqued my interest quite as much as it did….but what can I say. Gawd! The stutter is still there quite pronounced. I just want to lick him!!!! OMG! HELP ME!!! I knew of him back then! I…
Just finished reading a fantastically written piece by Molly Ringwald in The New Yorker about her revisiting the films she made with John Hughes. Extremely insightful and thought-provoking. You can read it by clicking on the image below…
In response to an article from March, 2016. Link to article below. I must admit…it’s an intriguing analogy…but, it has flaws and sells them rather short. Firstly, it could be agreed THEY (Simple Minds) let it happen…but record company pressures couldn’t have been easy to avoid, and by all accounts Virgin were very keen for…
priptona-weird: Advert in Smash Hits magazine for London (and wider UK) Cinema release of The Breakfast Club, June, 1985. By the way…that part of the tagline …“And touched each other in a way they never dreamed possible”
Advert in Smash Hits magazine for London (and wider UK) Cinema release of The Breakfast Club, June, 1985.
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…
The Breakfast Club was released 30 years ago today and there is still nothing like that feeling you get at the end of The Breakfast Club when Simple Mind is playing and Nelson’s fist is in the air. John Hughes: A Life in Film tells the story of acquiring the song and the band that…