Latest Release
- 16 AUG 2023
- 3 Songs
- The Very Best of Jimmy Somerville, Bronski Beat & the Communards (Collector's Edition) · 1989
- Manage the Damage · 1999
- The Very Best of Jimmy Somerville, Bronski Beat & the Communards (Collector's Edition) · 1989
- Orlando (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 1993
- Read My Lips (Remastered and Expanded) · 2023
- Home Again (Expanded Edition) · 2004
- The Very Best of Jimmy Somerville, Bronski Beat & the Communards (Collector's Edition) · 1989
- Homage · 2015
- Club Homage · 2015
- Almighty Presents: Why · 2010
Albums
- 2016
Artist Playlists
- Soaring hits from the most iconic falsetto in ‘80s synth-pop.
Appears On
- Richie Blacker & Gus F
About Jimmy Somerville
Singer Jimmy Somerville lent his soaring falsetto to two of the '80s premier dance-pop outfits, Bronski Beat and the Communards, before embarking on a solo career. He co-founded Bronski Beat in 1984; from the band's debut single "Smalltown Boy" onward, Somerville's songs dealt openly with his own homosexuality, a recurring theme which met with surprisingly little commercial resistance as both the record and its follow-up, "Why?," cracked the U.K. Top Ten. Somerville left the group to form the Communards in 1986 and topped the British charts in 1986 with a rendition of Thelma Houston's "Don't Leave Me This Way" before opting to go solo in 1988. ~ Jason Ankeny
- HOMETOWN
- Glasgow, Scotland
- BORN
- 22 June 1961
- GENRE
- Pop