What Jimmy Helms has been doing for many years seems nigh on impossible. His name might be familiar to a lot of listeners, yet quite a few of them can see and admire the entire roadmap of the veteran’s musical adventures. The listeners associating the worldwide-famous singer with LONDONBEAT, a band Jimmy still fronts, are hardly aware of his prog-rock-related credentials, and those who heard Helms in such projects as “The Butterfly Ball” would not be sure whether it was Jimmy or his namesake that took a soul classic “Gonna Make You An Offer” to the charts. But a sample spin of his recordings will convince everyone: there’s only one, and only, Jimmy Helms.
