Jimmy Somerville

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Manage The Damage  Jimmy Somerville

Working with cowriter and coproducer Sally Herbert, Somerville has crafted a fine dance-pop album. There aren't any big surprises lurking within these 11 tracks, just a batch of tasteful arrangements and nuanced production accompanying Somerville's unfaltering falsetto. "Something to Live For" opens with a pop-ballad intro, but soon shifts gears into an uptempo, affirmative dance track tinged with melancholy. The song's attitude and vibe recall '70s disco classics like Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive." Manage the Damage's high point is the masterful pop gem "This Must Be Love," in which Somerville's relaxed singing is propelled by a trip-hop undertow and then a swooning bridge blossoms into a lovely chorus that's both dreamy and irresistibly catchy. The disc's last tune, "Rolling," features floating strings buoyed by a hypnotic bass line. The accompaniment nicely supports Somerville's vocals on this well-chosen closer. --Fred Cisterna

Manage the Damage  Jimmy Somerville

Jimmy's newest release since "Dare to Love" brings great new songs, new programming collaboration and a matured sound. Working with ex-Banderas member Sally Herbert, this CD features dance and pop tunes that that all Jimmy fans will love. "This Must Be Love" is a very hooky pop ballad with gorgeous vocals and Eve is a very hooky synthpop track with Jimmy featuring his lower register. Other great tracks include "Dark Sky," "Lay It Down" and "Rolling." Fans of Jimmy's solo work and his work with Bronski Beat and Communards will definitely want to add this CD to their collection -- Anonymous Review

Age of Consent (with Extra Tracks)  Bronski Beat

1996 reissue of their 1984 debut album with six bonus tracks: 'I Feel Love' (medley with Marc Almond), 'Run From Love' (Re-mix from 'Hundreds And Thousands'), 'Hard Rain' (Re-mix from 'Hundreds And Thousands'), 'Memories', 'Puit D'Amour' and 'Heatwave' (Re-mix from 'Hundreds And Thousands'). 16 tracks total, also featuring the dance hits 'Why?', 'Smalltown Boy' and 'Junk'. 'Hundreds And Thousands'is a compilation of the band's remixes. All tracks are digitally remastered. A London Records release.

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Jimmy Somerville

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Jimmy's continued outspokeness on gay issues didn't prevent his records being played and selling in huge quantities. His honesty as a gay performer almost certainly helped to pave the way. 

Since he disappeared from the charts in 1991, Jimmy has deliberately taken time out of his high profile celebrity existence to, as he puts it, live his life to the full as a gay man in the 90's. His new solo material draws, if anything, even more than before on his personal experiences and the periods of both elation and anger he has passed through in the last 4 years... 

Jimmy Somerville:  Personal Biography

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Jimmy Somerville

From The Knitting Circle

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In the 1980s he was in the militant stream of left-wing politics. He was an active member of the Anti-Nazi League and the Labour Party Young Socialists. He demonstrated against the closure of coal mines and against the Tory government. In the late 1980s he became involved in ACT-UP and advocated direct action and civil disobedience.

After disagreements over politics he left Bronski Beat...

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