Showing posts with label jimmy ruffin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jimmy ruffin. Show all posts

Friday, November 21, 2014

What the hell, Minneapolis Star Tribune?

We need to talk, Star Tribune:

You think that being related to someone out The Temptations in Jimmy Ruffin's main claim to fame? Seriously?


Thursday, November 20, 2014

Legendobit: Jimmy Ruffin

Jimmy Ruffin has died.

Amongst his many other musical accomplishments, let's never forget that he took on Thatcher, on the side of the miners, when he joined Weller's Council Collective to raise funds for the strikers (while putting their side of the story):

(In obituaries this morning, the BBC is coyly describing this as "a charity single" rather than a political act.)

But this... this is what he'll be best remembered for: