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Jimmy Somerville

Synth-pop
Synth-pop

Jimmy Somerville is a Synth-pop act. Their sound grew out of Stephen Hague, Bronski Beat, You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real), The Pasadenas and Jimmy Jones. Those roots explain a lot about how Jimmy Somerville arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Bronski Beat, Erasure, Eurythmics, Kim Wilde and Ultravox, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Fine Young Cannibals, The Weather Girls, Mauro Picotto, Armand van Helden and Victory, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 34 connections around Jimmy Somerville, reaching back through Stephen Hague and forward to Fine Young Cannibals. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Jimmy SomervilleStephen HagueBronski BeatYou Make Me Feel (Mi…The PasadenasJimmy JonesCarmelHarold Melvin & the …SylvesterFine Young CannibalsThe Weather GirlsMauro PicottoArmand van HeldenVictoryBronski BeatErasureEurythmicsKim WildeUltravoxWet Wet WetFine Young CannibalsTerence Trent D'Arby

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Jimmy Somerville connections

Jimmy Somerville grew out of Stephen Hague, Bronski Beat, You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) and The Pasadenas, shares an orbit with Bronski Beat, Erasure, Eurythmics and Kim Wilde, went on to shape Fine Young Cannibals, The Weather Girls, Mauro Picotto and Armand van Helden. 34 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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