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The Age Of Consent

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The band had the telephone number of the London Gay Switchboard (telephone support and information for gays and lesbians in central London) etched into the inner groove of the 12" vinyl version. [15] The album was produced by Mike Thorne; the recording sessions took place in London and New York City. The first single, " Smalltown Boy", was recorded at The Garden studio (owned by former Ultravox singer John Foxx) and mixed at Maison Rouge studio, both of them based in London. [ citation needed] Suddenly Last Summer. Somerville вернулся в следующем году с первым из трех частей трилогии EP, Bright Thing, а затем Momentum (2011) и Solent (2012). В 2014 году Somerville отпраздновал 30-летие классического сингла Bronski Beat "Smalltown Boy" выпуском перезаписанной версии песни. Год спустя он выпустил свой шестой полноформатный альбом Homage, вдохновленный винтажной диско-музыкой. Why?', dedicated to murdered gay playwright Drew Griffiths, is fuelled by outrage at homophobic prejudice, yet also a plea for compassion, plainly heard in lyrics like

I left in 1983. AIDS had arrived and, to me, gay sex equalled death. It would take a long time to deal with those feelings of shame, guilt and fear. Thank you Catholic Church!" Fortunately, by 2004 I was out, proud and enjoying my sexuality with pride. Smalltown boy no more." The inner sleeve of the album has a table listing the minimum age for lawful homosexual relationships between men in each country in Europe, accompanied by the telephone number of a service giving gay legal advice. It was removed from the United States release of the album by MCA Records on the basis of "past sensitivities of several record store chains". [9] Singles [ edit ]The Village Voice 's Robert Christgau, in a contemporaneous review, noted the album's "two good singles" but added that "good politics don't have to be this monochromatic" and criticised the "narrow dynamic range that afflicts so many falsettos, even those with impeccable reasons for singing like women." [18] The album ranked at number 12 in CMJ 's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1985" list. [19] John Dougan of AllMusic retrospectively described the album's songs as "compelling vignettes about the vagaries of life as a gay man" and The Age of Consent as "simply a great album, period." [2] Politics may have been staunchly conservative in the early-'80s, but there were huge social and cultural shifts happening in the UK. Bronski Beat recruited John Foster as Somerville's replacement (Foster is credited as "Jon Jon"). A single, " Hit That Perfect Beat", was released in November 1985, reaching 3 in the UK. [15] It repeated this success on the Australian chart [13] and was also featured in the film Letter to Brezhnev. A second single, "C'mon C'mon", also charted in the UK Top 20 and an album, Truthdare Doubledare, released in May 1986, peaked at 18. The film Parting Glances (1986) included Bronski Beat songs "Love and Money", "Smalltown Boy" and "Why?". During this period, the band teamed up with producer Mark Cunningham on the first-ever BBC Children In Need single, a cover of David Bowie's " Heroes", released in 1986 under the name of The County Line.

Canadian album certifications – Bronski Beat – The Age of Consent". Music Canada . Retrieved 2 May 2022. Of course, again, we were so outraged by this so we decided to take the song but we wanted to turn it into like a duet between two men. And, if you do a cover of 'I Feel Love' you can't then suddenly do a nice soft kind of version of it, so we decided to make it really almost like harsh. It's almost like a pop/disco kind of punky kind of sound. You either like it you just think, 'My god that's painful'."About 1982 I was still listening to disco. But, above this bar, there was an organisation called Icebreakers, which was a kind of a support group for young gay men and lesbians, and everyone would go to this bar, but it wasn't disco that was being played," Somerville told RN's The Music Show in 2006.



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