Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)" topped the charts after it was released on "The Breakfast Club" soundtrack in 1985. “It sounded a little generic to us,” Jim Kerr, lead singer of the band, ...

Presented with the biggest hit they'd ever have, Simple Minds initially balked. "We are Simple Minds; we don't do songs that sound like Simple Minds," frontman Jim Kerr remembered saying. "We are ...

How could we forget about them? This week in 1985, Scotland's Simple Minds landed an indelible number-one on the wing of a smash that soundtracked the final scene of the era's seminal teen dramedy The ...

Five songs into their set, Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr smiled at the audience and said, after taking a deep breath, “We’re exhausted already!” He was kidding, of course, though it would be ...

Music is as easy as A, B, C for most people in rock’n’roll, but for Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr it’s a case of Eh? B, C. The star – whose hits with the group include Don’t You (Forget About Me) – can ...

Simple Minds is coming to play Ball Arena on Tuesday, May 27 – a show that won’t be threatened by Nuggets playoff basketball. (Sorry, Katy Perry.) As part of the ...

Don't you... forget about me. Ever since those lyrics rolled during the end credits of John Hughes' 1985 hit movie "The Breakfast Club," that Simple Minds song became ...

Back in the ’80s, Jim Kerr was one of the most charismatic frontmen around. From Live Aid to Freedom Fest, he and Scottish group Simple Minds captivated arena-filled audiences worldwide with grandiose ...

When Simple Minds hit the stage at Wembley Arena tonight - finally kicking off their Covid delayed 40 Years Of Hits tour - one song is guaranteed to raise the roof. Even those who know little about ...

It was Mike Scott of The Waterboys who coined the term the Big Music for the sweeping, expansive sound he captured in the mid-Eighties, but it was Simple Minds who claimed it for the title of their ...