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Pint-sized popster Jimmy Somerville was all the rage in the 80s kids. His brand of gay rights and politics stuck a (mainly falsatto) chord with students and activists the country over.
Bronski Beat brought us 'Smalltown Boy' and 'Age Of Consent', (Oddly the latter is not here) The Communards hits such as 'Don't Leave Me This Way' (the biggest selling single of 1986) and 'You Are My World'
But he didn't halt there launching a solo career which in ... ...Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)'....In fact there was no stopping our Jim...
Then, people started to realise he wasn't much cop at writing his own songs. Collaborating with the likes of RIchard Cole, he rocked. I saw him live in 1991 and he rocked....but eventually, on his ownsome he rolled...and rolled off the spectrum and out of the minds of the chart compilers.
One of the main reasons was he wasn't the dangerous subversive people thought he was in ...
mark_allen71 03.04.2006
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1980s, little did he or the rest of the country know the huge impact he would have on British life. His debut work with Bronski Beat ("Smalltown Boy" and "Why") ac...
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