The Happy Wanderer
- 1 January 2016
- book chapter
- Published by Bloomsbury Academic
Abstract
ExtractJimmy Somerville WHEN I think of Jimmy Somerville I think of wanderlust. He seems possessed by an inability to stay in one place for long. After six years he’s passed through success with Bronski Beat, The Communards and a solo career to a fourth set of collaborators (‘These two guys in California. One of them Brad is so spaced out and peaceful God knows how he’s going to cope with me’) . He has also moved from Glasgow through London to San Francisco. Perhaps permanently. In conversation he betrays the same tendency. The interview was supposed to last an hour. We were nearly into the second hour before a distressed record company person came and broke it up. Jimmy would rattle out an answer to a question and then, without so much as a pause for breath, drift effortlessly onto another topic he felt more pressing. I guess that’s what...Keywords
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