Archive for June, 2007

1989: Jimmy makes us feel (mighty real)


It’s 1989 and clubland has never been so busy. Jimmy Somerville, he of the incredible falsetto voice and a militant queer campaigner, decided to revisit Sylvester’s classic disco track from 1978, You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real). It proved to be his last significant hit, though not his last foray into the pop world by any means.

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You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (William Orbit Extended Mix)

The rave scene is well underway in 1989, although increasingly under threat thanks to aggressive media campaigns over-emphasising the numbers taking drugs and numbers of deaths due to drug usage—as if drugs were anything new then, or now—and an ever-belligerent government already working on a plan that was eventually to become the Criminal Justice Act in 1990. Unbeknownst to her, Margaret Thatcher was less than a year away from being betrayed by her own party—the enemy within—and unceremoniously ousted from office in stark contrast to the smooth transition from Blair to Brown in 2007 (although this time round we’re bored to tears, while back then Thatcher’s departure prompted thrills across the nation and many parties).

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Thursday, June 28th, 2007