A biography for Jimmy Somervillehasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I discovered later in life that there's not that many men with a counter-tenor vocal ability.”
“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.”