27 novembre 2019

Jimmy Somerville: READ MY LIPS | 30 years ago!

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"

30 octobre 2019

Jimmy Somerville feat. June Miles-Kingston: ADIEU! | 30 years ago!

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]
05 juillet 2010

Jimmy Somerville: 2 different 12", same catalogue number!

Voici encore un petit mystère de la discographie de Jimmy Somerville. Il existe 2 advance DJ copy only de 'Comment Te Dire Adieu' portant le même numéro de catalogue LONXDJ 241, l'un avec en face A le commercial mix (que l'on retrouve sur le 12" standard et sur le MCD) et l'autre avec en face A le banning the rules mix (uniquement disponible sur ce pressage qui est d'ailleurs beaucoup plus rare que son jumeau).