Marc Almond & Jimmy Somerville - I Feel Love (video)

What this video is

Released in April 1985 on London Records, this video documents a landmark moment of mid-decade British LGBTQ+ pop visibility. Bronski Beat, fronted by the openly gay Jimmy Somerville, collaborated with Marc Almond of Soft Cell — both figures synonymous with queer identity in the UK mainstream — for a medley cover of Donna Summer's Giorgio Moroder-produced 1977 disco classic 'I Feel Love', itself a foundational text…

Why it matters

A pivotal text in the Hi-NRG and synth-pop canon, this video bridges UK post-punk electronics and gay disco culture, uniting Soft Cell's art-cabaret lineage with Bronski Beat's activist Hi-NRG. As a cover of a canonical queer disco anthem performed by two openly gay acts, it stands as a rare…

The director

Constantine Giannaris (born 1959) is a Greek film director, photographer, actor, and author. He studied economics, history and philosophy at Keele and Birmingham Universities in Britain. His film career began with short, low-budget independent films in…