Jimmy Somerville

Now a solo performer, Somerville was the singer for Bronski Beat and duo The Communards (with Richard Coles) in the 1980s.

[in 1988] The way that the media has really treated people who die from AIDS is either they're kind of like seen as junkies, or just like queers, or people who are actually outside. It's never actually seen as like people who are actually just like people, human beings. It's not just statistics and figures, it's actually people who are dying. People who have friends and relationships and they do the same everyday things that everyone else does.