‘The milkman used to sell acid on Friday morning’ – Jim Kerr on growing up in Glasgow, and becoming Bono’s neighbour

The Simple Minds frontman recalls how he came to leave Dublin

Jim Kerr of Simple Minds on stage in Berlin in 2022. Photo: Redferns

Barry Egan

In the early 1990s, Bono became Jim Kerr’s unofficial estate agent. He found the Simple Minds singer and his then wife, the actress Patsy Kensit, a large period house on two acres near his own mansion in Killiney. The service to the Kerr family did not end there.

In 2015, Kensit told me the story.

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