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- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
When disco came around the first time, there was this real core of progressive thinking and a positive lyrical content - about freedom, the possibilities of love, change and expression.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
For someone who doesn't live there, when I go back to Scotland it's very weird for me.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always relied on a big producer and big studios. I had budgets that were ridiculous.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many people have to struggle for years, very few bands get success with their first record, but I was instantly successful and famous on a very large scale, which was scary.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had good parents. My mother had morals and standards and she brought us up to be good kids - some of the families around were just laws unto themselves, it was really tribal.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to squat with a bunch of friends - creative, intelligent, political people. We got involved in a community project funded by the Arts Council and we made this video. I sang a poem and somebody, I think it was Richard Coles, who was later my partner in the Communards, said I had a very strange sound and I should use it.
- Duran
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- Nov 07, 2020
People like Duran Duran were a big production but it was a nothingness. That's just my personal opinion.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a lot of honesty in that track. 'Smalltown Boy' was about leaving Glasgow but it was also about the people I had come to meet on my journey, especially when I was squatting in London.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you grow up with constantly being told or made to feel that you are less than, then it's very difficult to grow into an adult and to shake that off.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has to start from the playground and parents teaching kids that diversity is what makes us so wonderful.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, have you ever heard Sylvester's live version of 'Mighty Real' that was recorded in San Francisco? If I listen to that, I never fail to get goose bumps all over. I go crazy. That song just makes me so emotional.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, it doesn't matter to the papers why you left Glasgow. They never look at the roots of the problems you had, and you simply end up being painted as un-nationalistic.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely didn't have a happy childhood.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020