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The only option is to play it.
"Go!" shouts Jim and the band break into an energetic rendition of Promised You A
Miracle. The song is similiar to the eventual Live In The City Of Light version, but
clocking in longer with a lengthy instrumental break, ending with the new "Just my imagination,
running away with me" lyrics.
Then straight into The American, with Derek's opening bass riff. Jim sings the new vocal
intro with some extra cities:
"If you walk across the water
Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, New Orleans,
This is called The American!
Take me away. To another day.
Like the other Sparkle performances, this is a huge slab of a song. Jim adds loads of extra
vocals ranging from "Take Me Away, When Will You Take Me Away?" to "Turn me around, turn
me around"
"Thank you - this is Glittering Prize" and the band play a version very similar to the cut on
Promised You A Miracle (Live). Then with no annoucement, the Sparkle version of
Someone Somewhere In Summertime is performed, a cut in the recording follows, and Mick's
clinic synths open Big Sleep, the final recording on this bootleg.
This bootleg should have a white, plain cover with a red sticker with Simple Minds Live stamped in black on it.
Most have lost their covers and are known by the bizarre titles on the labels.
Simple Minds Live (aka Wheels Of Fame)
Paper labels
Promised You A Miracle [Live]
The American [Live]
Glittering Prize [Live]
Someone Somewhere In Summertime [Live]
Big Sleep [Live]
To the land of milk of honey
To the land of liberty
To the land of wide open space
The young poeple going up
Got old people where they are
Where they are, are, where they are,...
Washington D.C, Aqua, New Ohio, New York City,
I'm going up, up, up, up.
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