Jimmy Somerville

It's not a new album but a superb deluxe reedition of Jimmy Somerville’s 4th solo studio album, 2004’s ‘Home Again’,comprising a 'Double Vinyl Edition' and a '3 Disc Expanded Edition'. Never before a JS reissue has offered so many new materials, especially on the 3 CD expanded edition. Details: ------DOUBLE VINYL EDITION > Pre order here!------ A1 Could It Be Love (Extended) 6:16* A2 Under A Lover’s Sky  5:16 A3 Come On 3:49 A4 It Still Hurts 3:34 A5 It’s So Good (Extended) 5:27* B1 Burn 4:06 B2 Ain’t No Mountain High... [Lire la suite]

LEARNED TO TALK was released 5 years ago today! This single is taken from Jimmy's solo album HOMAGE. « It’s about understanding that if you allow yourself to open up and connect to your heart and have your heart and mind work together you can actually be aware and be involved in much more and allow yourself to be vulnerable. » (JS, 2015) Jimmy Somerville - Learned To TalkJimmy Somerville chats about his new single 'Learned To Talk'

"I wanted to do it as a tribute, but I wanted to do it as a celebration." (JS, 2012)YOU MAKE ME FEEL (MIGHTY REAL) was released 30 years ago! It spent three weeks in the UK top ten singles chart, achieving a high of #5, higher than any other version of the song...

an album of Love & Fight.  It was released on this day back in 1989... 30 years ago! "on CD, Cassette & LP" "A Limited Edition of this record comes in 4 Day-glo colours"

Just 30 years ago, today!(30th october 1989) COMMENT TE DIRE ADIEU was released!Jimmy Somerville featuring June Miles-Kingston It was Jimmy’s first solo single,reaching n°14 on the UK Singles Chart,n°3 in France and Ireland. Even before The Communards disbanded Jimmy was working on a solo project. First in line was a song by Françoise Hardy [french lyrics written by Serge Gainsbourg] from 20 years previous, Comment Te Dire Adieu which had lyrics that took on added depth in light of the AIDS crisis. […] « When we started... [Lire la suite]

Just 15 years ago, today! 18th October 2004 The Hi-NRJ dance track COME ON was released as the first commercial single* from the album 'Home Again'. (* It's So Good, released in June was essentially a promotional single). COME ON was co-written and produced with Peter Plate (from the successful german duo Rosenstolz).

Jimmy SomervilleMANAGE THE DAMAGE (20th Anniversary Limited Edition) Format: white vinylLabel: Demon Records (label of Demon Music Group specialized in vinyl reissue)Date: 20/09/2019

Summer is here! Ten years ago, Jimmy gave us S u d d e n l y  L a s t  S u m m e r a collection of acoustic covers…     It’s time to (re)discover all these original classical songs: « An amazing performance from the first track to the last, Jimmy’s voice touches the soul in places seldom visited, making ‘Suddenly Last Summer’ one of his sexiest and most heartfelt records yet. » (The Daily Ring, May 2009) 1. It’s Love by Blossom Dearie in 1959.   « ‘I Just Don’t Know What To Do With... [Lire la suite]

Released 20 years ago today (24th May 1999), the single ‘LAY DOWN’ was a few weeks ahead of a new album ‘Manage The Damage’. For Jimmy, to sample the song ‘Contact’ was to pay tribute to its author, Serge Gainsbourg, who was a true genius.     "LAY DOWN"is available onMANAGE THE DAMAGE3 DISC EXPANDED EDITION>> HERE <<

25th of January 2019,the wrongly underrated album"Manage The Damage" will be released as a 3CD deluxe version with many bonus tracks. Jimmy Somerville’s third solo album, 1999’s “Manage The Damage” was his first as an independent artist after splitting with London Records in 1995 after twelve years of recording with them both as a solo artist and with bands Bronski Beat and Communards. This is the first ever expanded edition of this album and, developed in conjunction with Jimmy’s management, with its 43 tracks over three discs,... [Lire la suite]