Credits original: London Records
Het album ‘The age of consent’ van Bronski Beat viert zijn 40-jarig jubileum. Ter gelegenheid daarvan is er nu een superchumbo mix uitgebracht, waar ook Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys) aan meewerkt. Hij spreekt in de nieuwe versnelde versie deze originele lyrics uit: “Name me an illness, call me a sin. Never feel guilty. Never give in. Tell me why.” In een statement zegt Tom Stephan, de man achter Superchumbo: “”My goal was to create an updated mix that fits well with contemporary sounds while preserving the original intensity and energy.”
Somerville , frontman van Bronski Beat, is al jaren goed bevriend met Superchumbo en wilde graag met hem samenwerken. “I’ve known Tom for a good few years now and when I asked him if he’d like to do a remix of ‘Why?’ he said yes straight away. The song is a part of his story. I was so moved when he shared that story with me. The lyric is our shared experience as it is for so many others…and forty years later the lyric still tells the story of LGBTQi+….the hate, the violence, the discrimination, the imprisonment and state sanctioned murder of those who dare to be their true selves and it’s happening somewhere right now as I write this.” Eerder verscheen ook al de ABSOLUTE remix van ‘Smalltown boy’ ter gelegenheid van het 40-jarige album jubileum.
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