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Jimmy Somerville interview: 'I wanted people to love me'

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If Jimmy Somerville had one of the most powerful pop voices of the 1980s, then his words carried even more of an impact. As frontman of synth-pop bands Bronski Beat and the Communards, Somerville’s soprano tones were unmistakable.

But almost more than his musical talent, it was his political zeal that made him stand out from the crowd. At a time when musicians such as Boy George and Freddie Mercury kept their sexuality ambiguous, Somerville was one of the first truly out-and-proud gay pop stars, addressing homophobia head-on in songs such as Bronski Beat’s “Smalltown Boy” while also nailing his socialist colours to the mast on such tracks as the Communards’ anti-Thatcher screed “Breadline Britain”. You’d be unlikely to hear chart acts today making a similar stand.

However, Somerville’s success was shortlived: in 1985, the Glaswegian left Bronski Beat to form the Communards, but the band split just three years later. And though he then pursued a solo career, he slowly withdrew from public life.

When we meet for coffee at the Sanctum Hotel in Soho, Somerville, 53, says it’s been almost 20 years since he’s done any “proper press”. He explains: “I’ve always been making music, but I sort of went under the radar. I kind of disappeared ... I was never really that comfortable with the music industry. I loved the idea of being able to express myself creatively – but the rest of it never really sat well with me.”

The reason for his emergence now is a new album that’s he’s truly happy with: Homage , a joyous old-school disco record complete with horn sections, big backing vocals, strings and the odd cow bell. It comes in the wake of the recent disco revival led by Nile Rodgers and Daft Punk; Somerville says that society needs the genre more than ever. “When disco came around the first time, there was this real core of progressive thinking and a positive lyrical content – about freedom, the possibilities of love, change and expression. I think we live in such fearful times at the moment [that] we start to close in on ourselves. [Disco is the] antidote to that.”

The album also appears to be Somerville’s way of casting off the darkness that has plagued him for decades. In the 1980s, at the height of his success, he struggled to cope with both the pressures of fame – “I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them,” he says – and the scourge of Aids that was decimating the gay community.

Somerville was best friends with Mark Ashton, the activist and co-founder of Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners, who was the hero of recent film Pride . Ashton died from an Aids-related illness in 1987; and despite the fact that his songs feature in the film, Somerville says he couldn’t bear to watch it at the cinema as it would “make him bawl his eyes out”.

His way of filling the void within was hedonism: Communards bandmate Richard Coles, now better known as Radio 4 presenter the Rev Richard Coles, documented their high-rolling lifestyle in his recent autobiography Fathomless Riches. Both were heavily into the trappings of the party scene – Somerville says “everything” when I ask what that involved – and it was only two and a half years ago that he finally accepted that he was an addict, and that “whatever it is that I [consume], especially chemical substances, once I start, I can’t stop ... it’s a case of either active addiction and possible death or abstinence and life. So I’ve chosen abstinence and life.”

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In 1987, when the Communards were imploding, Coles broke the news to Somerville that he was HIV positive; a few years later, he revealed that he had made the whole thing up. The second revelation ripped apart their friendship: “When he confessed, I didn’t react in a constructive way,” says Somerville.

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“I’d known lots of people who had died, people who were ill. I was in my own dark place of trying to deal with everything that was happening so I put a barrier up and we didn’t speak for a long time.” The two are now back in friendly contact – Coles emailed Somerville and asked him if he wanted to read his book before publication, though he declined. I ask him what he thinks about Coles being something of a national treasure now: “He’ll be in his element. He always wanted to be a big celebrity,” he laughs.

The new album might not push Somerville into the stratosphere in which the Rev currently resides, but it’s a rich collection. So, alongside the feel-good vibe, there’s social comment, as on the song “Travesty”, a damning indictment of the current government’s welfare policies (“Wake up/it’s a welfare war”).

As a working-class boy, he joins the current chorus of despair about the increasing elitism of the arts. “The industry doesn’t work how it used to work. I come from a place where, without the benefit system, I probably wouldn’t have had the opportunity to experiment. I had a system that allowed me and a generation of creative artists to do that. That’s why we were an incredibly explosive, creative country. We had that youth culture explosion in the Sixties but I believe the early Eighties was the second wave of that. We had a system that encouraged that. But now, our culture and arts scenes are under threat.”

More hopeful to him is the increasing number of gay stars in mainstream pop, the latest being recent Grammys and Brits hero Sam Smith. But he would like to see singers like Smith push things forward by choosing to use same-sex pronouns in their songs, as he did many years ago.

“I guess it’s up to the individual to sing and write that but I don’t believe for one minute that none of those artists have a desire to sing ‘he’ or ‘him’. But we’ll never really know if they did decide to change that, if they would be as successful.”

Somerville’s own focus, for now, is to spread some of the positivity from his album: “These songs come from someone who’s found some personal freedom.” And while he is single at the moment, he is not without love, he says. “I believe now that love is letting people in. Love is bigger than all of us. I’ve had a real struggle in the past, but I’ve finally connected my heart and head.”

‘Homage’ is released on 9 March

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Pop Icon Jimmy Somerville: A Career Overview

The former Bronski Beat and Communards singer is a pioneer in socially conscious dance music. We look back at his important and influential career.

If there is a pantheon of important figures in groundbreaking 1980s New Wave synth-pop, Scottish singer Jimmy Somerville is solidly in it. More than just a sharp lyricist with a bell-clear falsetto, Somerville fronted two of the most successful dance-pop acts of the era, Bronski Beat and the Communards, before kicking off a successful solo career. He was a brazenly gay provocateur at a time when the sociopolitical climates both at home in in the United Kingdom and here in the United States were stridently homophobic. What other artist can count among his greatest hits a handful of songs that not only made a generation hit the dance floor but also raised its consciousness?

Last year's 30th anniversary rerelease of Bronski Beat's classic "Smalltown Boy" reminds listeners that the song (and its powerful video) shone a light on issues like family rejection, community bias, bullying, and isolation decades before Glee and Macklemore. Remarkably, it shot to the number 3 spot on the U.K. singles chart. Here is Somerville last summer performing a stripped-down version of the classic:

This week Somerville releases his sixth solo album, Homage, in which he pays tribute to the disco era that has long inspired him. Opting to ditch the synthesizers, this time around Somerville sings in front of live musicians. He recently told the press he feels he's made the album he would have wanted to hear as a teenager. Listen to the deliciously retro horn blasts and sweeping strings of "Travesty" and experience the same joy our Studio 54-fathers did as they boogied on the dance floor:

Of course, Somerville's love affair with disco goes back decades, and in that too he was a bit of a rabble-rouser. The singer's string of hit disco covers came at a time when music critics were happy to have disco dead and buried. In fact, during the 1980s critics were so busy skewering New Wave synth-pop artists, they had all but forgotten disco. The two genres were at that time equally maligned by the macho rock establishment. Leave it to Somerville, already an openly gay New Wave chart -opper, to further thumb his nose at them by sashaying away as he belted out songs made famous by Donna Summer, Thelma Houston, and gay disco superstar Sylvester.

Let's look at a handful of highlights from Somerville's groundbreaking career:

1980: Somerville leaves his native Glasgow and moves to London.

1984: In its classic line-up, Bronski Beat, featuring Somerville and keyboardists Steve Bronski and Larry Steinbachek, releases the daring album The Age of Consent. Album art prominently features the pink triangle, which had become an LGBT movement's symbol, and its inside sleeve lists the legal age of consent for homosexual acts in several countries across Europe. The album soars up the British charts, scoring hits with a trio of now classic synth-pop hits, "Smalltown Boy," a cover of Summer's "I Feel Love," and the early LGBT anthem "Why?" That peppy number finds Somerville singing about gay harassment, but its chorus is a proud call to arms: "You and me together, fighting for our love." (Bonus points for the wacky video in which Somerville, dressed as a deli worker, sings about kissing another man's lips while standing amid dangling sausages. So much for subtlety!)

1985: Somerville launches the Communards with gay keyboardist Richard Coles (who would go on to become a Church of England priest and a beloved BBC host). Somerville, ever the provocateur, chooses a band name, during the Western Bloc's tense Cold War with the Soviet Union, that sounds an awful lot like "Communists." (It's actually named for the same 19th-century French socialist revolutionaries who inspired Karl Marx.) The band's album and singles artwork are cribbed from vintage Communist Party propaganda posters, and, if that's not enough, the second album is titled Red. Yet, the hits are focused 100 percent on the dance floor and the group scores big with a cover of the Jackson 5 by way of- Gloria Gaynor classic "Never Can Say Goodbye" as well as "Don't Leave Me This Way," originally recorded by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, though, of course, Somerville opts to revisit the 1977 Thelma Houston disco version.

1989: Somerville releases Read My Lips, his first solo album, racking up another hit with a cover of Sylvester's "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)." He stretches out a bit more with a cover of "Comment Te Dire Adieu" by legendary French chanteuse Francoise Hardy.

1990: Somerville contributes a sublime over of Cole Porter's "From This Moment On" to the Red, Hot + Blue compilation. The album was one of the first major AIDS benefits in the music industry.

1995: Somerville releases Dare to Love, featuring "Heartbeat," which soars to the number 1 spot on the U.S. dance chart.

2009: Somerville releases Suddenly Last Summer, an album of acoustic interpretations of songs by artists as diverse as Burt Bacharach, Blondie, the Doors, and Deep Purple.

2015: Somerville releases Homage , an album that meticulously re-creates the authentic 1970s sound of the disco era. No synths this time around. Shimmering funk guitar meets bona fide strings and horns. Somerville also leaves the covers behind, instead writing Homage' s 12 originals, to create what he says is "the disco album I always wanted to make." Enjoy the funky "Taken Away."

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Jimmy Somerville of Bronski Beat, The Communards and solo fame is back with a new album dropping Friday, March 6th. Homage is all disco and all brand new music. This gay icons distinguished voice and style really shine through in his new album. We hope he tours soon!

Jimmy Somerville’s Homage

Earle Dutton: Are you excited about the new album? Jimmy Somerville: Yes it’s something completely different. It is a whole new place to be musically. It is really exciting.

ED: There is so much new music and electronica. What made you decide to do a disco album? JS: I guess because I’ve done some of my own interpretations and covers of so many disco songs. I’ve taken them out of their own context and put them in mine. I just kind of put them in a gay context or more politically gay friendly context. So with this album I really wanted to explore the genre and the whole process of making such an album. I wanted to stick as close as possible to the way it would’ve originally been done so there are no electronics and no synthesizers. The entire album is all acoustic and real. It was a really great experience.

ED: I have loved your music with The Communards, Bronski Beat and as a solo artist. I am not sure all of our readers have followed you that long. What would you like to tell them that you have been up to all of these years since your last album? JS: You know, living my life and getting along with stuff. I’ve still been creating music just more low-key. I would produce stuff but I wouldn’t really think about promoting it or doing anything around it. I kind of elected to just let them have a life of their own. This project was so different and so special that I decided to promote it and put it out there and to do all the things necessary to get people to be aware of it and listen to it. I think it’s a great album.

ED: Do you have a favorite song on the album? JS: No. I don’t really pick favorites because everything changes every day, especially music. I just love music so much. Often I’ll fall in love with a song for just the day and that will be the song of the day or maybe even longer. Then I’ll discover something else and love that. All of them get some love and attention at some point (laughter).

ED: What is your process? How do you personally choose what songs go on an album? JS: This process was really different. We just started arranging the songs and it just became apparent that they were working really well together. It was all about getting excited about the music. It was a process of really connecting to each track. (Video below for “Travesty” the first single from Homage )

ED: I know that this album is just coming out, but do you have a new album or project in mind? JS: I’ve already written the songs for the next album and they are just waiting to go. It is very interesting because this next album is similar but completely different from this one. It almost seems like a genre of music that would’ve come before disco. It is more paired down. It is all acoustic and really going back to basics. It has been an interesting process. I think I’m really reconnecting to all the sounds that I really loved, that for some reason I’ve always managed to pass by. I am really indulging in it and exploring them and myself. I’m discovering my real musical roots. It’s late in the day but it is better late than never.

ED: Are you going to tour America? JS: I would love to do some live stuff. The great thing about this genre is its flexibility. You can have a big band or a small one because it’s all about the live experience, the acoustic experience. You can take a couple of horns and a couple of strings and do it any way you want. The production of this album was all about the energy, talent and love that everyone put in it. The musicians really gave it a life of its own. It was a really exciting experience.

ED: How do you think this tour would differ from a Bronski Beat or Communards tour? JS: It would be very different because I’m not 26 years old any more (laughter). I have a lot more life experience behind my vocal cords now. I’ve a much more relaxed and stronger understanding of who I am and where my gifts are with my voice. I feel a stronger connection to it than I ever did before. It’s a different time, place and a very different me. I have the same energy, the same passionate belief and the same conviction as before though.

ED: Was it a surprise when Richard Coles your partner in The Communards became a priest? JS: At the time I was pretty much (umm) okay. I didn’t know Richard well enough to realize how dark or desperate it gotten for him. He changed his life and it sort of saved him and brought him back from the brink. If becoming a priest is what did it for him, then thank God for that because it saved his life. That is the most important thing. I don’t really think about it that much anymore. At the time, I was very angry and rallied against it. It didn’t fit into my beliefs at the time.

ED: How does it feel to have your hit song “Smalltown Boy” still be so lyrically relevant after 30 years? JS: I’m so proud. It really is more than just a song. I think people get a real heartfelt and genuine connection from it. It taps into people’s emotional state. I get a lot of letters and comments from people stating how it changed their life or got them through some tough situation. It is a lot more than just saying I love that song and I used to dance that song. To be a part of the group that created the song is amazing. It has not been my song for really long time it is in its own universe and sending out love. That is how I see it. (Video below for “Smalltown Boy” by Bronski Beat)

ED: You are known for doing some really amazing covers. Do you currently have a favorite? JS: Not really, sometimes when I’m singing one I may connect with it more than others. (Laughter) There was a period that whenever I sang “Never Can Say Goodbye” I would think that I wish the song would just go fuck off (laughter). Then a little while later I would connect with the melody again and really love singing it. It just comes and goes like everything we do. There have been some real ups and downs with me. Some of the songs have seen me at my very lowest and even at my highest points. They have seen me through a lot of things. Some of them are really more than songs. I have really always loved singing the beginning of “Mighty Real”. When I perform it live, I take the epilogue version from album and do a 30 or 40 second really slow and spiritual intro. Then I carry on the really long note and just blow your ears off.

ED: Were your musical influence is growing up? JS: Wow, they are so varied. I grew up with lots of music and a hunger for new music. I wanted to listen to anything and everything. A really cool and cherished thing that I just bought is the 12 inch pink vinyl version of Dolly Parton’s “Baby I’m Burnin’”. On the sleeve is Dolly Parton on the swing and it says ‘Disco with Dolly’. It really couldn’t get any better. As a kid I listened to: Dolly Parton; Connie Francis; Peggy Lee; Nina Simone; Nina Hagen; David Burns; Donna Summers; Sylvester; The Temptations; Diana Ross; Tony Bennett; Bill Haley & the Comets; and everything in between. Strangely enough, I’ve never really been a fan of Elvis Presley or the Beatles. I don’t really know why.

ED: What are your thoughts about marriage equality spreading across Europe? JS: I think marriage equality is a basic right that everyone is entitled. If you’re in a democracy then you should have the same rights as everyone else in that democracy. You should not be discriminated against because of the color of your skin color, sexuality or gender. I can’t believe we still live in democracies where people are discriminated against.

ED: Do you have a message you’d like to send out to LGBTQ youth? JS: Life is hard. I can’t even pretend to tell you that there is a yellow brick road, because there is no fucking yellow brick road. It is really about your journey and believing in yourself. It is about doing the right thing and being honest. It’s also about finding out who you are. I think it really helps to reach out and connect with people similar to yourself to become a stronger voice. I really think that can help you survive and thrive.

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Jimmy Somerville

80’s pop star, 90’s solo artist, what has happened to jimmy somerville you make us feel, mighty real, for nearly forty years, jimmy somerville has been in integral part of the british music scene. in the 1980’s as the lead singer in two groups and as a solo artist in the 1990’s. born in glasgow in 1961, james william somerville co-founded the group bronski beat in 1983 with steve bronski and larry steinbachek. the group debuted in 1984 with what would become their signature tune “ smalltown boy “, which made no.3 in the uk and charted top ten across europe and topped the us dance chart. it reached no.48 on the singles chart there..

Bronski Beat released their debut album “The Age Of Consent” in October and gained further chart hits with “Why?” (UK No.6) and “It Ain’t Necessarily So” (UK No.16). The album reached No.4 in the UK and has been Platinum certified for sales of over 300,000 copies. It climbed to No.36 in the US as well as following “Smalltown Boy” into the top ten across Europe and Canada. “Smalltown Boy” returned to the UK chart in 1991 reaching No.32 and again in 2013 making No.95. It has sold over 500,000 copies in the UK to date.

Soon after this initial success, Jimmy left the group and together with musician Richard Coles, formed The Communards. Their debut release “You Are My World” only made No.30 in the UK and the follow up “Disenchanted” did one better in January 1986 making No.29. It was their third single, a cover of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes 1975 hit “ Don’t Leave Me This Way “, that finally found success topping the chart in four countries including the UK, where it ended up the biggest seller of 1986. The song made the top ten in fifteen countries and broke the US singles chart at No.40.

The band’s self-titled debut album was released in July and made No.7 in the UK as well as charting high across Europe and No.90 in The States. “So Cold The Night” was another top ten hit later the same year and a remix of “You Are My World” released at the beginning of 1987 climbed to No.21 in the UK as well as breaking the top 40 in many parts of Europe.

The communards were not just jimmy and richard, they employed two further musicians and singers with sally herbert and caroline buckley, who would later form the group banderas ( a previously featured where are they now ) and had a minor uk hit in 1991 with “this is your life”. writing and recording of the band’s second album was well under way by the time the remixed “you are my world” had been issued with the first single “tomorrow” being released in august 1987. the track made no.23 in the uk and mi-charted across europe. again, it was a cover version that would give the group their next big hit, this time the jackson five’s 1971 hit “ never can say goodbye ” which took the communards back into the top five in eleven countries and to no.51 in the us..

The second album “Red” equaled this position in the UK, also going Platinum status and No.93 in America. It peaked at No.3 in France gaining a Gold certificate for sales of over 200,000 copies there. Two further singles were lifted from the album, “For A Friend” (UK No.28) and “There’s More To Love” (UK No.20), both released in early 1988. And that was the end of The Communards! Coles and Somerville went their separate ways with Jimmy now focused on a musical career by himself.

Jimmy wasted no time at all and returned in 1989 with the song “Comment Te Dire Adieu”, a cover of Françoise Hardy’s 1968 French classic. Jimmy teamed up with musician and backing singer June Miles-Kingston and took the song to No.14 in the UK and No.3 in France, where it sold over 200,000 copies. It would be the prelude to Jimmy’s debut solo album “Read My Lips”, released in November that year.

Although sales were initially slow, things picked up pace dramatically in January 1990 with the release of the second single “ You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) “, a cover of US disco singer Sylvester’s 1978 hit. Somerville took his version to No.5 in the UK, beating Sylvester’s 1978 chart high of No.8, which to date is the highest UK chart position attained by the song. “Read My Lips” would eventually sell over 100,000 copies there, gaining a Gold certification by The British Music Industry. A third single “Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough)” peaked at No.26 that Spring.

Somerville has released five studio albums since then as well as two highly successful greatest hits albums in 1990 and 2001. He achieved a second top ten hit in 1990 with “To Love Somebody” (UK No.8) and a top twenty hit with “Hurt So Good” in 1995, from his album “Dare To Love” (UK No.38). The lead single from the album, “Heartbeat”, had earlier topped the US dance chart and reached No.24 in the UK.

In 2015 Jimmy realised a long held dream of recording a disco album, taking him back to the music he grew up listening to. The album “Homage” included the singles “Back To Me” and “Travesty”. Jimmy announced “I’ve finally made the disco album I always wanted to and never thought I could”. Jimmy continues to play live and in 2020 he provided guest vocals on the single “I Wish You Well”, while he worked with Ravi Adelekan on “A Million Dreams” in 2022. He has been promoting reissues of both Communards albums recently that are now available on new vinyl pressings.

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Jimmy Somerville has been successful over many projects throughout a career that started when he founded eighties British synthpop band Bronski Beat. Following his success with classics like Smalltown Boy , Jimmy parted way with the band in 1985 to form another hugely successful staple in 80’s disco pop, The Communards where he continued to dominate the charts with hit singles that including two of the bands signature releases, a cover of the Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes hit Don’t Leave Me This Way and a cover of The Jackson 5’s Never Can Say Goodbye , both solidifying their place as one of the 80’s most successful acts.

Fresh from releasing his latest single and busy preparing for the release of a new album in early 2015, Jimmy Somerville shows no signs of slowing down as his latest up-tempo stormer proves and we had the chance to catch up with the musician recently to discuss his latest work.

During our interview we asked Jimmy about the singers brand new single, the Disco-inspired Travesty and his upcoming album. We also asked Jimmy about his proudest career achievements and his views on the developments of LGBT equality in today’s society. Here is what Jimmy had to say…

Brendon Veevers: How are you doing Jimmy and where in the world does our interview find you today?

Jimmy Somerville: Hi Brendon, I am currently in the London borough of Islington.

JS: The single is a really disco stomper. It’s got everything in it but the kitchen sink. It’s everything that I’ve always loved and funnily enough, when we had finished with the mix and when everything was done I was like “Oh my goodness! This is everything that I have always wanted to do on a record!”, so for me it is a real treat. It’s an interesting one because it’s very much kind of full on and really loud and bangin’. It’s everything that you expect a disco track to be but it’s got this real kind of social common lyric. It’s a very optimistic lyric and for me it’s about dealing with where we are, kind of where I am and how I feel in this moment in time regarding politics and world affairs really.

BV: Travesty comes ahead of the new album which you have titled Homage . Is the style and general vibe of Travesty indicative of the rest of the album or is it going to be a mix of genres?

JS: It’s all disco which is why the record is called Homage – it’s a homage to an era; it’s an homage to a sound which is so kind of, the life that it has and no matter where you go it’s like people still play a lot of disco to lift everybody’s feeling and to give everyone a good time. Disco is always good to lift the soul a little and that’s what I wanted to do; I wanted to do something that was kind of a celebration. There is a ballad in there to which is a homage to the ballad and is fun.

BV: What else can you tell us about Homage ? Any guest appearances or covers within the record and when can we expect the record to land?

JS: There aren’t any covers on the record; they are all self-written which has been really good fun. The album is coming around March next year and it’s going to be great because it’s also going to be pressed on vinyl with a gatefold sleeve and for me that’s always been a dream for me as a kid because if it was a double album I would go home and the gatefold would open up and I would just be in vinyl heaven!

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BV: The last few years has seen a lot of success go in the way of comeback by 80’s artists like Alison Moyet, Erasure, Human League, Culture Club and Nik Kershaw. How are you feeling about being an artist these days and where do you think you fit within the industry?

JS: It’s a really strange term, that thing about “comebacks”. I always think, “Where have I been?” and “Where did I go?” I’ve always been doing what I do and I’ve always been making music and it’s a shame because what that says to me is that if you don’t have commercial success that somehow you’ve suddenly disappeared.

I’ve always been making music but it just hasn’t had commercial success and while it’s nice to have commercial success, for me as an artist and as someone who just wants to sing and to write it’s just about the actual process of creating so I’m just doing what I usually do and I’ve come up with a new album and it’s been really well received and it’s great to know that there are so many people that are really enthusiastic.

I’ve got a really great team. I haven’t worked with record labels for a while and it’s a really small company but there are some great people working on it who have just given really great energy and that’s really nice to have people who are working in the record industry that like music (laughs) and who are working with you because they love music so that’s really cool.

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BV: As an openly gay musician you have been honest and open about your lifestyle choices all throughout your career and you have always been a huge supporter of the LGBT community and for the equal rights of gays and lesbians around the world. There is obviously still a long way to go for the gay community, particularly for those in certain countries like Russia and parts of Africa. How do you feel about the developments of gay rights and what do you think it will take for the whole world to be accepting of the LGBT community?

JS: Ever since I was a kid I’ve always had this realistic idea that no matter how things change and no matter how progressive we get there will always be people who shun you for the colour of your face. There will always be people who will bat you around the head with a bat because of who you love and all that kind of stuff and it’s never going to go away. That’s the sad thing. That’s part of the human condition.

For me, my optimism is about the fact that the human condition is a journey and hopefully that journey carries on and we become much more understanding of each other and basically just accept each other and it sounds a bit wet but it’s not actually, it’s very simple but sadly its so far removed from where we are at the moment.

All it is about is accepting one another for who we are and to get on with our own lives and stop interfering in someone else’s. But that is always going to be the case and it’s what keeps me optimistic is that I actually do have faith and belief, as I say in Travesty – “believe in a better day, believe in a better way”.

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BV:  What career moment do you regard as being your finest? What are you the most proud of when you look back over your lengthy career and why?

JS:  Umm, today I guess the thing that I am most proud of, well in some respects  Smalltown Boy  kind of has to be up there because it is a classic and it still has the power to reach deep into someone’s soul and into someone’s emotional framework and for me that’s pretty cool. Even when I listen to it I’m kind of, not detached from it but it’s quite distant from me because if I listen to it I can hear where it’s coming from and there is a real emotional cry in that song and that’s what makes the song so powerful because there is something really emotional and from deep within in that song so that song probably would be my proudest moment.

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BV: Social media is a fundamental tool these days to an artists’ success and the promotion of records. Have you embraced social media or is it something that proves to me more hassle than a tool that is worthwhile?

JS: It’s kind of interesting. I use Facebook with my work but I don’t use it personally. I use things like WhatsApp with my friends. I have my iPhone and various things but I don’t really use social media so much.

It’s interesting because it’s definitely a generational thing because there is a younger generation where social media is the norm but for me personally it’s not the norm because a lot of my memories and a lot of my past is based in a very different way of communicating and getting around but at the same time it’s kind of amazing.

I have involvement in various organisations and there’s one that is called Change.org and the power of that organisation is quite amazing – it’s absolutely incredible because you basically just get sent a text or an email and you sign a petition and before you know it hundreds of thousands of people have signed a petition and suddenly the issue gets noticed and I just think that’s amazing and for me that is when social media is really brilliant; it can bring to someone’s attention something that we can be involved in rather than feeling helpless.

BV: What are the plans for touring Homage and Travesty ? Will you be taking to the road over this year or next to promote the releases and what can you tell us about territories and dates?

JS: Next year we will probably be doing some live stuff and some promotional stuff so at the moment it’s all about finding the musicians and finding the way and means to do that but it’s all possible but it just takes a lot of organising and we have an expression here called ‘ducking and diving’ to try and find the cash. It’s all about the cash (laughs)

Jimmy Somerville’s new single Travesty is out now and available on iTunes and and Amazon and Jimmy’s new album Homage will be released in 2015.

Check out the Robbie Leslie Mix of Travesty here and a video of Jimmy talking about the new single here .

::: RenownedForSound.com’s Editor and Founder – Interviewing and reviewing the best in new music and globally recognized artists is his passion. Over the years he has been lucky enough to review thousands of music releases and concerts and interview artists ranging from top selling superstars like 27-time Grammy Award winner Alison Krauss, Boyz II Men, Roxette, Cyndi Lauper, Lisa Loeb and iconic Eagles front man/songwriter, Glenn Frey through to more recent successes including Newton Faulkner, Janelle Monae and Caro Emerald. Brendon manages and coordinates the amazing team of writers on RenownedForSound.com who are based in the UK, the U.S and Australia.

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Kate Hudson Makes TV Performance Debut with Song 'Gonna Find Out,' Teases Tour: 'I'm Getting Back on the Bus!'

"I have some gigs coming up and I'm so excited," the actress told Jimmy Fallon during her 'Tonight Show' appearance

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• Kate Hudson appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Thursday
• She made her performance debut as she sang "Gonna Find Out" on TV for the first time
• The actress' debut album Glorious will be released May 17

Kate Hudson is loving performing her new music!

On Thursday, May 2's episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon , Hudson, 45, made her TV performance debut as a singer with her song "Gonna Find Out," taken from her debut album Glorious , which is set to be released May 17.

The actress took the stage wearing a white tasseled dress featuring a lace-up front as she sang along to lyrics including, "I guess we're gonna find out/ Oh, we're gonna find out/ Yeah, I'm gonna find out/ If you're gonna come up to my house," in the catchy chorus.

While talking to Fallon , 49, on the show, Hudson revealed that it's the "greatest feeling" to finally be releasing her debut album that's been "two and a half years in the making."

"It's like too much to explain... I love music, I've loved music my entire life. It was my first love and I've been writing music my whole life," the Glass Onion star shared, adding: "I just thought it was something I'd only have for myself until, like, COVID. And then I was like 'I'll regret not just putting it out in the world.' So I did."

Hudson revealed her upcoming LP includes rock, soul, country, Americana, and pop songs, which she co-wrote with Linda Perry, 59, and her fiancé Danny Fujikawa , 37.

"It was so much fun because I'd never had like a collaborative writing experience. We just had like a weird, awkward first date, and sat around in a circle," Hudson joked of the start of the writing process. 

She eventually suggested, "Let's start with something swampy," teasing that the result of that was the song she performed on the show, "Gonna Find Out."

Hudson also confirmed she'll be heading out on tour soon. "Yeah, I am. I'm getting back on the bus!" she told Fallon, adding: "I have some gigs coming up and I'm so excited." So far, the only date announced on Hudson's website is May 18 at The Bellwether in Los Angeles.

"It's so new and I'm loving it... I'm just so happy when I'm doing it, so I'm just staying there, just staying present with music," Hudson continued of finally launching a music career.

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The Almost Famous star's Tonight Show appearance came after she sat down with CBS Sunday Morning on April 28. During the interview, she revealed that she was told she was "too old" to be making music years ago.

"There was someone who said to me, and it kind of jarred me a little, it was in my early 30s and they basically said, 'It's done. Past. You're too old,'" she recalled. "And for me it wasn't just about being a performer, it was about wanting to write music."

"So it kind of resonated for a bit, and then I was like, 'Nah, f--- you. No, no one tells me what to do!'" she insisted.

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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem – who has been considered to be a potential running mate for presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump – addressed on Sunday the recent attention on her new book where she writes about killing an unruly dog and a goat.

The Guardian obtained a copy of Noem's soon-to-be-released book, "No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move American Forward." Noem is scheduled to be interviewed on "Face the Nation" next week about her upcoming book, set to be released on May 7. 

In it, she tells the story of the ill-fated Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer she was training for pheasant hunting.

She writes, according to the Guardian, that the tale was included to show her willingness to do anything "difficult, messing and ugly" if it has to be done. The backlash was swift against the Republican governor and on Sunday, she addressed the issue on social media. 

"I can understand why some people are upset about a 20 year old story of Cricket, one of the working dogs at our ranch, in my upcoming book — No Going Back," she wrote in a post on X , the platform formally known as Twitter. "The book is filled with many honest stories of my life, good and bad days, challenges, painful decisions, and lessons learned."

In her book, Noem writes that she took Cricket on a hunting trip with older dogs in hopes of calming down the wild puppy. Instead, Cricket chased the pheasants while "having the time of her life."

On the way home from the hunting trip, Noem writes that she stopped to talk to a family. Cricket got out of Noem's truck and attacked and killed some of the family's chickens, then bit the governor.

On Sunday, she defended her decision to kill the dog, saying that "South Dakota law states that dogs who attack and kill livestock can be put down."

"Given that Cricket had shown aggressive behavior toward people by biting them, I decided what I did," Noem wrote. "Whether running the ranch or in politics, I have never passed on my responsibilities to anyone else to handle. Even if it's hard and painful. I followed the law and was being a responsible parent, dog owner, and neighbor."

In the book, Noem also writes that her family also owned a "nasty and mean" male goat that smelled bad and liked to chase her kids. She decided to go ahead and kill the goat, too. She writes that the goat survived the first shot, so she went back to the truck, got another shell, then shot him again, killing him.

The excerpts drew immediate criticism on social media platforms, where many posted photos of their own pets. President Joe Biden's reelection campaign surfaced the story on social media alongside a photo of Noem with Trump.

It's not the first time Noem has grabbed national attention.

A month ago when she posted an  infomercial-like video about cosmetic dental surgery  she received out-of-state.

In a nearly five-minute video on X, she praised a team of cosmetic dentists in Texas for giving her a smile she said she can be proud of. "I love my new family at Smile Texas!" she wrote.

In 2019, she stood behind the state's anti-meth campaign even as it became the  subject of some mockery  for the tagline "Meth. We're on it." Noem said the campaign got people talking about the methamphetamine epidemic and helped lead some to treatment.

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Tiger Woods and Jimmy Fallon Shared a Laugh Over Tiger Tree Memes

Tiger explained why he shook a tree's hand.

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Tiger Woods is making the rounds promoting his new clothing line this week . On Tuesday he appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon . After explaining why his clothing line is called Sun Day Red (He wears red on Sunday. Get it?), Woods and Fallon looked at some tree memes.

Yes, @TigerWoods has seen your tree memes 🤣 #FallonTonight pic.twitter.com/NaaxhAjfoL — The Tonight Show (@FallonTonight) May 1, 2024

Tiger was back on NBC on Wednesday morning for an interview with Carson Daly on TODAY . It turns out that Woods and Daly are old golf buddies. If you didn't know that then Daly leading off the interview saying "we have so much history together," must have been surprising to hear.

Tiger Woods sits down with Carson Daly to talk about golf, growing up in Southern California, his father and his new apparel line, Sun Day Red. pic.twitter.com/2TFbSNxzxq — TODAY (@TODAYshow) May 1, 2024

Woods also explained the meaning of his new logo, saying that the tiger, which he describes as "nice and clean," has 15 stripes to represent each of the major championships he has won. He also said that his goal is to ruin the logo by winning another.

It sounds like he'll take his next shot at making his logo irrelevant later this month at the PGA Championship . Woods didn't specifically commit to any events, but Daly asked if he was still planning to play a tournament a month this year Tiger said, "I have basically the next three months. So I have three majors and hopefully, you know, that all kind of works out."

If he doesn't capture his first win since the 2019 Masters, he should at least try to create another memeable moment so he has something fresh to talk about the next time he has to promote his clothing line.

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