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Jimmy's Live at Rewind Festival 2014 MP3 Mini-Album is now on sale via:the Concert Live website at http://tinyurl.com/qjrgqk4 and the Official Rewind Festival app at www.rewindfestivalapp.com The MP3 mini-album Includes Jimmy's entire live set from Rewind Southand at just £2.99 is available to download now!      "JS HQ" Live at Rewind Festival 2014: 1-You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)2-Why?3-Never Can Say Goodbye4-To Love Somebody5-Smalltown Boy6-Don't leave Me This Way[33'12]

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tracklist:- No More War- Smalltown Boy - Why? Bronski Beat Maaspoort Den Bosch 12-10-1984

Today in Jimmy Somerville / The Communards story:"DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY" was released twenty eight years ago.The song was written by Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff and Cary Gilbert.Originally a hit for Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes and for Thelma Houston, The Communards decided to release their version of the Philly classic as their third single (after You Are My World & Disenchanted).It was number one in the UK for four weeks and was the top-selling single in the UK that year."I wasn't thinking in terms of it being a single when... [Lire la suite]

"The Reverend Richard Coles is a parish priest in Northamptonshire and a regular host of BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live. He is also the only vicar in Britain to have had a number 1 hit single: the Communards' 'Don't Leave Me This Way' topped the charts for four weeks and was the biggest-selling single of its year. Fathomless Riches is his remarkable memoir in which he divulges with searing honesty and intimacy his pilgrimage from a rock-and-roll life of sex and drugs to a life devoted to God and Christianity. Music is where it... [Lire la suite]

Jimmy Somerville:'Jesus Christ! Alan Shearer – what a little sex bomb!' about: still alive, his beard, his voice, Smalltown Boy, independence of Scotland, Alan ShearerRichard Coles' speedboat in Ibiza, gay artists, alcohol...andnew 'organic disco' album called 'HOMAGE' with only one synthesiser, a mellotron theguardian

more information soon! original "Dance and Desire" artwork of the "Do You Wanna Dance" tour program in 1991

Il y a 30 ans, Jimmy Somerville sortait «Smalltown Boy». Aujourd'hui, on l'a (presque) oublié    

Jimmy Somerville:on success, suicide andselling himself(6 pages with photos)

Today in Jimmy Somerville story:"DARE TO LOVE" was released nineteen years ago (first entry in UK chart June 24th) Dare To Love is "[...] a typical rollercoaster mix of upbeat pop dance numbers and more serious songs exploring gay issues. The title track, about a man who loves a younger boy of 16 is threatened with prison and persecution, is typically upfront and provides a topical link with his earlier material."It's still very much a pop album" enthuses Jimmy, "a bit of disco and some jazzy blues but basically just jolly pop, gay... [Lire la suite]