Smalltown Boy 2014 Reprise
Smalltown Boy 2014 Reprise#1
Posted: 6/17/14 at 9:57pm
Jimmy Somerville still has the pipes. And looks so cute with his beard.
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Smalltown Boy 2014 Reprise#2
Posted: 6/17/14 at 10:35pm

Love him. Only saw him once, I think--at an ACTUP concert at the Palladium.
Smalltown Boy 2014 Reprise#2
Posted: 6/17/14 at 11:52pm
Wow. He still sounds great. And that gorgeous song never gets old. It's a shame he didn't have a more prolific recording career.
You guys have probably seen this video. Someone was taping a random busker singing "Smalltown Boy" when Jimmy happened to, just by chance, come by while walking his dog. Such a fun moment.
Smalltown Boy 2014 Reprise#3
Posted: 6/18/14 at 12:02amSo cute.
Smalltown Boy 2014 Reprise#4
Posted: 6/18/14 at 12:09am
Smalltown Boy 2014 Reprise#5
Posted: 6/18/14 at 2:21pm
Being of the younger generation, I'd never heard that song before until Sharon Corr performed it in concert a few months ago here in Atlanta. I re-traced back to the original version and became hooked on it. Such a moving song even years later. In comparison with the original, his voice hasn't aged a bit.
Love that busker clip!
Smalltown Boy 2014 Reprise#6
Posted: 6/18/14 at 3:04pmTake grampa's word for it: this was an incredibly radical song in '84. Nobody was out in popular culture then. It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times.
Smalltown Boy 2014 Reprise#7
Posted: 6/18/14 at 3:19pm
Speak for yourself, Namo. I had hair (on my head, as opposed to in my ears) and old guys (i.e. men younger than I am today) used to buy me drinks--and all they wanted was sex!
Good times....Good times.
Smalltown Boy 2014 Reprise#8
Posted: 6/18/14 at 3:23pmI said "in popular culture"! Even Elton John married a lady then.
Smalltown Boy 2014 Reprise#9
Posted: 6/18/14 at 3:26pmTo be fair--hadn't he bravely come forward and self-identified as "bisexual"?
Smalltown Boy 2014 Reprise#10
Posted: 6/18/14 at 3:31pmBut then the AIDS epidemic hit and he went back in, at the exact moment EVERYBODY distanced themselves from the gay.
Smalltown Boy 2014 Reprise#11
Posted: 10/3/14 at 6:15am
According to Wikipedia, the tap dancing heard in "Heatwave" is done by none other than Australian musical theatre star (and occasional Broadway performer) Caroline O'Connor. How's that for your random fact of the day?
Wikipedia - The Age of Consent
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