Bronski Beat have saved lives

This plate is likely many a boy or young man who saved his life, because in 1984, the gayness was loaded with still many more difficulties and prejudices than it is today; at least if you grew up in middle-class milieu or in a working class family.

Songs and videos like the great "Smalltown Boy" and then the following "Why?" were daring, almost revolutionary. Jimmy Somerville, the little singer with the characteristic high-pitched voice was almost a hero, wearing a lot of help to change the (western) world. If you will, Jimmy is a kind of gay John Lennon, and I very much hope that he will not be killed one day by some fanatic.

THE AGE OF CONSENT is still a great record to dance to it, but also to listen to her just - not always, but every now and then. My favorite song (next to the immortal "Smalltown Boy"): the melodic and lyrically impressive "junk" in the Somerville Conveniently, once barely sing in falsetto.