Jimmy Somerville: reviews, quotes and key works

Jimmy Somerville

Musician

Forfans of synth-pop, disco, and bronski beat/the communards; curious newcomers to 80s pop legacies.
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The Profile

Scottish singer known for a soaring falsetto; fronted Bronski Beat and The Communards in the 1980s before a successful solo career with disco, synth-pop and Hi-NRG hits.

Lead singer of Bronski Beat and The Communards; distinctive falsetto; notable songs include Smalltown Boy and Don't Leave Me This Way with his groups; solo highlights include You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) and Comment Te Dire Adieu; active since 1983; Scottish; known for LGBT rights advocacy.

Two reviews spotlight Somerville’s lifelong disco heart and unmistakable falsetto. Homage is praised as a lovingly anachronistic, fully retro disco tribute with strong songwriting and spirit. Live And Acoustic At Stella Polaris showcases intimate, stripped arrangements where classics like Smalltown Boy, Why, and For A Friend gain new emotional weight. Overall sentiment: warmly enthusiastic.

Notable Quotes

❝ The common thread in JimmySomerville's career is certainly his passion for seventies dance music.

❝ “Homage” is totally, deliberately anachronistic: not vintage, not inspired by that particular period, just identical, exactly as disco music was in its golden years, without any concession to “modernity”; it could have been presented to me as an album released in 1977/1978 and I wouldn’t have noticed the difference at all.