- Jimmy Somerville( James William Somerville )【 合計 8アルバム 99曲 歌詞 】
- James William Somerville (born 22 June 1961) is a Scottish pop singer and songwriter. He sang in the 1980s with the pop groups Bronski Beat and The Communards, and has also had a solo career. He is known in particular for his falsetto singing voice.
Career
In 1983, Somerville co-founded the synthpop group Bronski Beat, which proceeded to have several hits in the British charts. Their biggest hit was 'Smalltown Boy' which reached No. 3 in the UK charts. In the music video Somerville played the song's titular character who leaves his hostile hometown for the friendlier city. This was a reflection of Somerville's own experience when he came to London in about 1980, and was able to enjoy the gay scene and also attend the London Gay Teenage Group.
Somerville left Bronski Beat in 1985 and formed The Communards with classically trained pianist Richard Coles (now a Church of England vicar and broadcaster). They had several hits, including a cover version of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes' 'Don't Leave Me This Way,' which spent four weeks at No. 1 in the UK charts and became the biggest-selling single of 1986 in the UK. He also sang backing vocals on the Fine Young Cannibals' version of 'Suspicious Minds', which was a UK Top 10 hit.
The Communards split in 1988 and Somerville began a solo career the following year. He released his debut solo album Read My Lips in November 1989, which contained three UK Top 30 hits, including a hit cover of Sylvester's hi-NRG classic 'You Make Me Feel' and a cover of 'Comment te dire adieu?', a duet with June Miles-Kingston, which reached number 14 in the UK Singles chart. He also sang on the second Band Aid project at the end of 1989.
In November 1990, Somerville's 'greatest hits' album The Singles Collection 1984–1990 (which featured his hits with Bronski Beat and The Communards in addition to his own material) was released and reached number 4 on the UK Album Chart. It included a cover of the Bee Gees' hit song 'To Love Somebody', which also reached the UK Top 10. Also in 1990, Somerville contributed the song 'From This Moment On' to the Cole Porter tribute album Red Hot + Blue produced by the Red Hot Organization, the proceeds from which benefited AIDS research.
In 1991 Somerville provided backing vocals to a track called 'Why Aren't You in Love With Me?' from the album 'Ripe' by Communards offshoot band Banderas. The Banderas duo, Caroline Buckley and Sally Herbert, had previously been part of Somerville's backing band. After this, he disappeared from the limelight for several years. He returned in 1995 with the album Dare to Love, which included 'Heartbeat' (a UK Top 30 hit and a No. 1 hit on the US dance chart), 'Hurts So Good' and 'By Your Side', though commercial success was now beginning to elude him and his contract with London Records to which he had been signed for over a decade came to an end.
A new single, 'Dark Sky', was released in 1997 and peaked at No. 66 in the UK. His third album, entitled Manage The Damage, was released in 1999 via Gut Records, though failed to chart. A companion remix album, Root Beer, came out in 2000. His dance-orientated fourth solo album, Home Again, was released in 2004, though again failed to chart.
May 2009 saw the release of Somerville's Suddenly Last Summer album, which contained acoustic interpretations of other people's songs. The album was initially only available as a digital download but in May 2010 was made available in a limited edition (3,000 copies) CD/DVD in the UK. In late 2010, Somerville released a dance EP called Bright Thing.
Jimmy Somerville has also had an acting career, appearing in Sally Potter's 1992 film of Virginia Woolf's Orlando, in Isaac Julien's 1989 Looking for Langston, and in an episode of the cult science fiction television series Lexx ('Girltown').[citation needed]
2010's EP Bright Thing was the first of a series of three, with Somerville releasing Momentum in 2011 and Solent in 2012, with long term collaborator John Winfield.
September 2014 saw the release of new single 'Back to Me' followed by 'Travesty', both from Somerville's new disco-inspired album 'Homage'. The emphasis on the recording of the new album has been on achieving the musical authenticity of original disco which Somerville grew up listening to. He stated 'I've finally made the disco album I always wanted to and never thought I could'. - 曲名リスト•モード ＞ アルバム順(発行時間) 曲名順(文字数) 曲名順（その他）
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Club Homage
2016
1.Travesty (Extended Version)
2.Strong Enough (John Winfield Remix)
3.Lights Are Shining (Radio Remix)4.Some Wonder (Extended Version)
5.Overload (Extended Version)
6.Back to Me (Extended Version) -
Homage
2015
1.Some Wonder
2.Strong Enough
3.Freak
4.Taken Away
5.Back to Me
6.The Core7.Travesty
8.Bright Thing
9.Lights Are Shining
10.This Hand
11.Overload
12.Learned to Talk -
Suddenly Last Summer
2009
1.It's Love (提供)
2.I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
3.Hangin On The Telephone (提供)
4.Hush (提供)
5.Sweet Unknown (提供)
6.Where Have All The Flowers Gone (提供)
7.My Heart Belongs To Daddy (提供)8.Was That All It Was (提供)
9.By Your Side
10.Walking After Midnight (提供)
11.People Are Strange (提供)
12.Motherless Child (Andrew Worboys Remix) (提供)
13.Motherless Child (Live) (提供)
14.Black Is The Colour Of My True Love (提供) -
Orlando (Movie Soundtrack)
1993
1.Coming -
Singles Collection 1984-90
1990
1.Ain't Necessarily So
2.Comment Te Dire Adieu
3.Disenchanted
4.Don't Leave Me This Way
5.For A Friend
6.I Feel Love
7.Never Can Say Goodbye
8.Read My Lips
9.Run From Love10.Small Town Boy
11.So Cold The Night
12.There's More To Love Than Boy Meets Girl
13.Tomorrow
14.To Love Somebody
15.Why ?
16.You Are My World
17.You Make Me Feel(Mighty Real) -
Jimmy Somerville: Live and Acoustic at Stella Polaris
1.You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (Live)
2.Back to Me (Live)
3.To Love Somebody (Live)
4.Come Lately (Live)5.Some Wonder (Live)
6.For a Friend (Live)
7.Smalltown Boy (Live) -
Dare To Love
1.Cry -
その他
1.Heartbeat
2.My Life
3.Rolling
4.Perfect Day
5.Because of Him
6.This Must Be Love
7.Control
8.Safe in these Arms
9.Something To Live For
10.Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You
11.Love thing
12.Too Much of a Good Thing
13.Dare to Love
14.Someday Soon
15.Eve
16.Come Lately
17.Lay Down
18.Alright
19.Dark Sky
20.Girl Falling Down
21.Here I Am22.Stone
23.A Dream Gone Wrong
24.Hurt So Good
25.Dark Sky (J&S 12' (Peg's Study Mix))
26.Lay Down (Sounds of Live Remix)
27.Can't Take My Eyes Off You (Almighty Pop'd Up club mix)
28.I Feel Love (Johnny Remember Me)
29.Something to Live For (Sounds of Life remix)
30.Hurt So Good (Beatmasters radio edit)
31.Safe (Todd Terry 7')
32.Why (Almighty essential radio edit)
33.Heartbeat (radio edit)
34.But Not Tonight
35.I Will Always Be Around
36.Don't Leave Me This Way - With Communards [feat. Sarah Jane Morris]
37.Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair
38.Can't Take My Eyes Off of You (Almighty Definitive mix)
39.Rain (提供)
40.Why (Almighty 2000 mix)
41.Why (Almighty 12' Essential Mix)
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